[pj]

That's a very good point. Perhaps that also adds to the nonviolence of the Engineering Dance. Less intelligent people want to maintain power by being the top dog and more intelligent people want to learn from those above them and therefore be the bottom dog where there is more room to grow and "move up" so to speak.

[spkthed]

If you take it a step further, there's always things that people are better at than you. Accordingly, you are constantly learning from everyone around you.

Unless you're always the smartest person in the room.