SINCE I KNOW MYSELF

It was a winter morning, the first Monday after the semester break. The teacher was trying to get to school on time just like the students. She has a time problem ever since she knows herself. She either comes very early or will be late.

 

When she arrived at school, there were barely three minutes until class started. It was difficult to run in high heels, but she always cared about her appearance for as long as she could remember. When she entered the classroom, the students had already taken their place. After a little holiday chat, she started the lesson. Mathematics was a subject that everyone had difficulty with, but it had always been her favorite subject, and now she was teaching it. Especially geometry was her favorite part. The shapes seemed like a puzzle to her. That's also how she taught her students. She wanted her students to enjoy it as much as she did.

“If I don't enjoy it, they won't enjoy it either, so can you learn without enjoying it?”

While she was intently explaining her lesson, she was stopped by a voice coming from behind;

“Teacher, can you slow down a little, I can't keep up!”

 

The teacher heard this often. It was a trait of her she could not prevent for as long as she knows herself. She walks fast, talks fast, thinks fast. This was the most problematic while teaching. The number of students who could not keep up with her was not small. She was trying to slow down, but sometimes she wished they would speed up a little too.

The lesson passed between the teacher's efforts to slow down and the students' efforts to catch up.

 

A person's characteristics, which he has as long as he can remember, are an advantage in some parts of life, but a challenge in others. Sometimes it puts pressure on those around him. Because most of the time he is confronted by those who force him.

 

Everyone knows themselves. And since most people only know themselves, they put themselves in the other person's shoes to understand them. With this strategy they form a relationship. And they are often wrong.

“What was there to be angry about, I was only joking!”

“I'm just a little late. I don't have any problems with such things, why is he so angry now?

“When I saw it, I liked it very much, I thought that surely he would like it too, but it didn't happen that way.”

 

Every human being tends to know himself, few really do. Few really know the reason for their behavior, their habit, their character, their temperament...

And therefore very few people know the other person in front of them.

This is exactly what the Who is Who - People Recognition Arts seminar is for :)