Tricia,
I took away a lot of the same points
that you did from this week’s reading!
The story about the cellist who learned
to play with passion, enabling him to find a job worthy of his talents, didn’t
really stand out for me until the explication of the Beyond the Fuck It rule—after that it stuck! There are so many
times when I am tempted to finish something halfway, or leave a task completed
with half the effort. I will have to remember that I should move beyond that
state of mind and hold myself to a higher standard.
I was surprised when Benjamin Zander
wrote that he had mentioned the rule when he visited an all-girls Catholic
school and repeated the rule there. I wonder if that was the school where I
work; I can definitely see the nun who used to be the head of school adopting
that as her motto!
The video that you posted at the end of
your comments was really interesting. (You’re definitely a glass-half-full
type!) Thanks! -Kim
Tricia’s post
The reading for this week was very
profound! Rule #6 is a story that I would like to share with so many
co-workers! In fact I did. I went to work the next day after
reading the story and a co-worker had to deal with a very uncomfortable
situation so I told her the story about rule #6 she loved it! It made her
day much better; she made me a sticky note with Rule # 6 on it and stuck it on
my file cabinet and she made one for herself. My superintendent also
enjoyed the story and returned my email stating that he had been sharing a
similar story to others earlier in the week. Rule #6 is a great
diffuser.
The second profound statement is “beyond
the fuck it” now that is a little trickier to share. I appreciate the
meaning behind the statement but I just do not feel comfortable sharing that
with high school students and my co-workers I am afraid that on Fridays a few
of my co-workers may change the sequence of some of those words J Love the idea! We
all need to live our life, “beyond the **** it” (sorry couldn’t type it again)
Which leads me to my next favorite section of this weeks read the glass half
full and half empty.
I feel that I am a person who always
views the glass half full so I felt completely validated when the reading said
that half full is the physical reality. I then enjoyed reading about the
downward spiral and conversations for the possibility. I wish teachers
would step back and evaluate their conversation style, is it the downward
spiral style or where do I go from here. I think if more educators really
looked deep inside and reflected the reason why change is slow in coming is
because many have the tendency to be conversing and acting in the downward
spiral mode rather than where do we go from here mode. I know several
educators that stay out of the teacher’s lounge because they do not want to be
trapped in a downward spiral conversation and I suppose instead of
avoidance they should be the one to go in and turn that downward spiral into an
anything is possible. Maybe it would be easier to just buy multiple copies
of this book and highlight certain passages and hand them out as needed!
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