the importance of being earnest

I have been lucky in my life, to be given so many opportunities to improve my skills as a journalist and to sharpen my gender lenses. I used to think, in my own arrogant-know-it-all-teenage-mind, that my strength was in what I knew, but really my real strength is in the type of people I know. For instance, I know some great minds who have nurtured mine and made it open and understanding, without the positivity around me I would not have harnessed my own sense of optimism.