You know, I almost started to make this post all one big rant about the two people I encountered today that made me want to scream. However, I'm not going to do that. I don't quite know how to deal with the first one, so I'll wait on that for now. I want to address this second person.
I do not know this second person very well. I just met them yesterday. They are very genuine and passionate about what they do. They push themselves to the limit and then go a little further. I was having to learn from this person. Yesterday, I loved it. This person had so much insight and information to teach, I learned quite a bit. Today however, I was just ticked off by this person. I enjoyed them as a person, but as a teacher, I believed down to my core that they sucked. I was very defensive. I stewed for the entire two hours. I believed that I knew more about what I could do and what I could handle than they did. Yet they kept insisting that I could do more, that I could take more, that I hadn't seen or experienced anything yet.
I left there thoroughly ticked off and ready to rant and rave about it when it hit me, I do that. In my field, when I'm teaching or explaining or having to compare my experience level to that of someone else, I hold them to an extremely high standard. I don't consider their background, what issues they're going through, etc. I take what I have seen them do at that moment and I insist that they've "seen nothing yet" that they could handle more, that they could be doing so much more, and have much more potential.
It was a big "Ah Ha!" moment. What is it that makes us hate the very things about others that we have inside of ourselves?
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