My son came back from the dress-rehearsal of the school annual day dance.
He was clearly excited about the program but something was bothering him. I asked him what's wrong.
He said - " My teacher says, I am doing very nice in the dance, but I am placed in the last row of the group."
His problem was more like, if he really does well why should he stand in a place where normally bad dancers are kept away from clear visibility ?
Then came the annual day ! Clearly he was one of the worst dancers of the entire team. The costumes, settings, smoke, beats - all kind of hid few imperfection in the group very nicely.
Here is a situation where the feedback was not verbal. It was in action. Most of the times, feedback can not be given to children in a verbal manner. And same is true for the adults who have not grown up !!
The problem bucket is the adults, who have not grown up, but they think they have - and expect direct verbal feedback, that for sure they can not handle !
A loss..
10 months ago
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I really liked this perspective. I see this so often in the work place. First step to self improvement is when we measure ourselves. Key action to move from first state to second state of evolution
Unconsciously Incompetent -> Consciously Incompetent -> consciously Competent -> Unconsciously competent
Anand,
Above all the conscious vs. competency lies the real metrics to measure good life ( and after life :).
Where we do not even think about competency. Its just about conscious or sub-conscious !!!
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