I know the feeling. I’m not generally clumsy but equally I was never that good a communicator of slanted interpretations. If I thought a research project was lost (doomed) I tended to offer such a view, with the 2-3 most powerful reasons. Colleagues would ask me “Why don’t you leave other projects alone? You’ll get less criticism yoursel…
I know the feeling. I’m not generally clumsy but equally I was never that good a communicator of slanted interpretations. If I thought a research project was lost (doomed) I tended to offer such a view, with the 2-3 most powerful reasons. Colleagues would ask me “Why don’t you leave other projects alone? You’ll get less criticism yourself, too”.
My response was that what’s being spent was all our money and we’ll go broke if we don’t even try to keep ourselves honest.
Not an easy time for truth-tellers, I must admit. Yet no one said, it is an easy path being authentic and truthful. Once telling the truth is a personal value though, one is starting to derive meaning from staying true to one self. Namaste
I know the feeling. I’m not generally clumsy but equally I was never that good a communicator of slanted interpretations. If I thought a research project was lost (doomed) I tended to offer such a view, with the 2-3 most powerful reasons. Colleagues would ask me “Why don’t you leave other projects alone? You’ll get less criticism yourself, too”.
My response was that what’s being spent was all our money and we’ll go broke if we don’t even try to keep ourselves honest.
Well done.
Because of who I am and how I am, criticism is constant. I learn from whatever is useful and laugh at the rest. But it does wear on me at times.
: )
It won me no friends.
Almost nobody likes a truth teller. Sad but so in most human affairs.
I’d still counsel others to “live not by lies”.
Not an easy time for truth-tellers, I must admit. Yet no one said, it is an easy path being authentic and truthful. Once telling the truth is a personal value though, one is starting to derive meaning from staying true to one self. Namaste