I have no answer, but I have a response, and that is that I've been needing to stop internalizing certain failures. In therapy, I discovered a connection between internalizing failures, and am identification with my successes that I thought was in the past.
My grades. I'm talking about grades. I got great grades that I barely studied for.
I have no answer, but I have a response, and that is that I've been needing to stop internalizing certain failures. In therapy, I discovered a connection between internalizing failures, and am identification with my successes that I thought was in the past.
My grades. I'm talking about grades. I got great grades that I barely studied for.
Now, in my agéd wisdom, I know that the grades were not meaningful measurements of merit. In trying to debug the internalizations of failures that were causing me pain, I fantasized about a school in which being at the ass end of the bell curves of performance were seen not as a measure of merit, but a measure of unusualness. And I'm this school the ultra-weirdos would be put together and learn from one another. The kids with reading comprehensions would be together with the kids who could not seem to grasp addition. We would learn about our strangenesses together. Not all the mutants have cool powers you know, some just get transparent skin or telepathic links to tomato plants.
Can you think outside "better than" and reach "uniquely so"?
I have no answer, but I have a response, and that is that I've been needing to stop internalizing certain failures. In therapy, I discovered a connection between internalizing failures, and am identification with my successes that I thought was in the past.
My grades. I'm talking about grades. I got great grades that I barely studied for.
Now, in my agéd wisdom, I know that the grades were not meaningful measurements of merit. In trying to debug the internalizations of failures that were causing me pain, I fantasized about a school in which being at the ass end of the bell curves of performance were seen not as a measure of merit, but a measure of unusualness. And I'm this school the ultra-weirdos would be put together and learn from one another. The kids with reading comprehensions would be together with the kids who could not seem to grasp addition. We would learn about our strangenesses together. Not all the mutants have cool powers you know, some just get transparent skin or telepathic links to tomato plants.
Can you think outside "better than" and reach "uniquely so"?