Wise Words From Work

I'm a slow learner...especially about myself.

But I'm learning. Today a colleague repeated back to me office gossip - questioning my professional capacity because I wasn't "in the industry". It stung. In some ways it's true and it's been a source of ongoing tension at TAFE recently.

But driving home the second part of his comment sunk in - he reported that his way of dealing with the same charges is "i think do I respect this person's opinion? do i need to take seriously what they say?" Now many people have made similar comments to me on this sort of theme - over years - but somehow today it clicked. Do i let one person's opinion drag my thinking about myself down....coudl it be that the other's are right - stuff about encouraging inspiring teacher (yeah yeah i say brushing it off). And then because instead of just mouthing those words I let myself think them came the insight - it's one opinion not the final word. And I also justified it but that's being not nice.

So how come at least at the start I'm so willing to believe the one over the many? But at least I've caught it and recognised it.

Now I'm going to relax with a nice glass of wine.