How Gauche!

Leonardo Da Vinci, left-hander.

I am left-handed. This morning, I had to sign a document. Someone else, watching me write with my left hand, said to another, quite intentionally in my hearing, “can that be corrected?”

An obvious and stupid error: to suppose that doing something in a different way from most people is an “error” or an “inferiority.” Yet it is not just a common misconception; it is the standard assumption in entire fields.

All human progress, and all morality, is based on not doing things the same way everyone else does it.