Like a Turtle on a Fence Post

I love the visual lesson from last week's Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast:

"The late Alex Haley, author of the novel Roots, kept on the wall of his office a picture of a turtle sitting on a fence post. To him, the image held a powerful lesson. He explained, “If you see a turtle on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.” Haley continued, “Any time I start thinking, ‘'Wow, isn’t this marvelous what I’ve done!’ I look at that picture and remember how this turtle—me—got up on that post.'1

What Haley understood is that no one gets anywhere without a boost—without the help, attention, love, and encouragement of others. In a word, he understood humility, the forgotten virtue of our time."

1. In Stephen R. Covey, Everyday Greatness (2006), 162.