You well fulfill your post as "conversation starter" - always giving me something worthwhile to think about. I was looking at a chart of cognitive biases the other day and doing some reading on a number of them and an unplanned guffaw escaped from my belly. The idea that I accurately direct all of my perception and thinking, as I am prone to believe of myself, became patently absurd. It seems that a sense of humor needs to be almost at the top of the list when it comes to making progress on our own growth path. In the last year I've be getting more and more comfortable with the fact that I'm idiot a good percentage of the time. And the more I've embraced this fact the more people seem to enjoy spending time with me. Go figure. There seems to be two options. You can own you're an idiot, or you can make other people feel like one.
Love that you point out a sense of humor and I agree, it's a necessity. I tend to be on the serious side in general and although I don't think they're mutually exclusive, I often need this reminder of lightness, humor, ridiculousness even. Owning we're idiots seems the way to go then ;) Thanks for continuing the conversation Rick.
You well fulfill your post as "conversation starter" - always giving me something worthwhile to think about. I was looking at a chart of cognitive biases the other day and doing some reading on a number of them and an unplanned guffaw escaped from my belly. The idea that I accurately direct all of my perception and thinking, as I am prone to believe of myself, became patently absurd. It seems that a sense of humor needs to be almost at the top of the list when it comes to making progress on our own growth path. In the last year I've be getting more and more comfortable with the fact that I'm idiot a good percentage of the time. And the more I've embraced this fact the more people seem to enjoy spending time with me. Go figure. There seems to be two options. You can own you're an idiot, or you can make other people feel like one.
Love that you point out a sense of humor and I agree, it's a necessity. I tend to be on the serious side in general and although I don't think they're mutually exclusive, I often need this reminder of lightness, humor, ridiculousness even. Owning we're idiots seems the way to go then ;) Thanks for continuing the conversation Rick.