Posted by corkskru on January 31, 2013, at 23:19:11 [reposted on February 3, 2013, at 1:13:09 | original URL]
In reply to , posted by on December 31, 1969, at 18:00:00
Does anybody else feel they've fallen short?
Talking over this feeling of falling short with the 3 new members (me, myself and I)as didn't want to bother Dr. Bob until our group has grown a bit... Anyway, falling short could have made me feel bad about my ability to teach what I thought was a valuable lesson, but realizing that civility is much like empathy or creativity in that it is much easier to teach a skill than to teach a talent or trait. I may do all the right things to the fruit trees but that is not a guarantee that the fruit will grow or be abundant. So, to carry the weight of a less than successful outcome as a personal failure, it must be viewed in the context of how much I really can control and feel good that I have done all that I am capable of doing and strive to improve on the next attempt.
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