- By gaining the awareness of how little the other persons can actually retain what we said.
- By letting ourself be pleasantly surprised by the creative solutions put forth by the persons we depend on.
- By not taking away the opportunity of allowing the other persons to grow and learn through their mistakes (i.e., within reasons :)).
- By not blocking the avenue of self expression (i.e., by not insisting on "do it my way").
- By ... well, you may have more reasons .. let me know :)
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Hi, Roch
ReplyDeleteit seems to me that there's more people that not only can contain the impulse, but habitually stay 'safe' and don't even try to interfere at all, so the work suffers.
So, perhaps a topic that can accompany this one shuld be called 'How not to cross to the 'safe' side' :))
Hi yury,
ReplyDeleteTook me a while before I could figure out what you meant .. sometimes, I'm just a bit slow .. ha! ha!
Yes, I do agree with what you said. If we're over self-centred (and protective), the work and the world around us would suffer. Actually, our defensive inactivity which seems to serve us well initially, may come back to haunt us (and our children, and their children, and ..). It seems to me that, the issue is not what we can or can't do, but the regret we may have that we didn't even give it a good try.
We've an old saying in our culture (Arthur Schopenhauer may like this one :)): "Everybody should just clear the snow in front of their own houses. Never mind the frost on others' roofs."
Very best wishes,