Thursday, July 3, 2014

Credos Do Not Justify Failure

Most people seem to become one-trick ponies in whatever roles they play—bosses, teachers, therapists, parents, preachers, etc.rarely, if ever, even considering doing something different from what they've done in the past. We all seem to drift toward the eventual development and adoption of a set of inflexible guidelines for ourselves, often described with words like beliefs, rules or credo. But all people and experiences each of us encounter are always unique, requiring successful interactions with the world and with each other to be based on a drastically more flexible approach. We are not helping ourselves when we offer praise to someone who claims that they "at least stood up for what they believed in" when they have failed. That nonsense needs to stop.

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