What is your intention?
I was having a discussion with my instructor team and we referred to story 13 in the book, “The Tao of Leadership”. (Great book). It talked about how praise and recognition could be a source of anxiety and stress.
How? If a teacher is speaking to a group and the audience applauds, the teacher will feel happy. From then on, the teacher is going to work for the applause causing anxiety if they don’t get it. Now the teacher is teaching for themselves and not the audience.
I like this story a lot and shared this because I believe we should always teach with the genuine interest of helping our audience and not give any merit to recognition. If they applaud, wonderful, if they don’t, wonderful….your doing your best to inspire and impact.
Grandmaster Kim says we should always pay it forward. If we get a compliment or recognition, we pass that on to the person/people who helped us. If someone applauds, publicly or not publicly, we give that credit to others.
This will always keep us humble, eliminate anxiety, and we could continue to impact for the pure benefit of our audience.
Sooooo, I hope I get a ton of likes and comments so I feel good…(only kidding😂😂😂)
