Organizations
Whatever abilities we do have that brought us into consideration for our role are all gifts to us. Life: we did not cause our own existence. Intelligence: we did not create our own minds, cleverly choosing to build a really good one! Education: whatever we have learned, we did not create the educational opportunities that we took advantage of. Other people, over decades or even centuries did the pioneering work to assemble a body of knowledge. Other people wrote the text books, designed the course work, founded the schools, taught the classes, built and maintained the buildings, and on and on. We applied ourselves to learning, but could never have created our education on our own. Energy Levels: the energy that allows us to work hard to learm ad to do our jobs well is a gift! Not everybody had the energy level to work and learn what you have been able to accomplish. We don’t have it because we chose to have it. We have it because it has been granted to us. Some people just don’t have an energy level that allows them to accomplish much. It
may not be their “fault” at all! It Might Have Been Someone Else
You might not have been the absolute best person for the job. The organization works hard to pick “the best” person for the role, but
The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise
or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
We might have overlooked someone else who would have been better at this than you will be. Chances are pretty good that someone somewhere is thinking , “I would have been better.”
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