The Sharpest Tool in the Shed - Remix, Episode 453
How much of each us gets excluded when we constantly compare ourselves to one another, and to the expectations we're handed by our culture.
And how much we exclude the gifts of others by the very same process.
Is there a way we could give up inappropriate comparison and in so doing learn to include so much more everyone's talents and gifts, and the supportive ground of life itself?
In this conversation we talk about different kinds of learning, mischief, the attitudes we take that portray us as 'better than' or 'worse than' others, and what it is to deeply and gladly welcome the many kinds of difference and intelligence that are available in the world.
This week's Turning Towards Life is from May 2023, remixed and represented as we are in the midst of teaching the final session of this year’s Professional Coaching Course. It’s hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
Our source for this week:
People ask me
why I am happy.
What can I say ?
I stopped trying to be
the sharpest tool
in the shed.
Once I gave that up,
I could rest in all this love.
Relaxed, I opened the door,
stepped out and discovered
the whole bliss garden
I'd been missing.
Ingrid Goff-Maidoff
ingridgoffmaidoff.com
Photo by Lucio Patone on Unsplash