Lessons from School you Need to Unlearn
Years ago, I had a coworker who was new to office work. The work was technical and had to be just right, so I gave her a checklist of items she had to complete for every assignment. I'd review her work and see that she'd missed steps and I'd tell her to fix it. Finally she got upset and showed me the checklist with items checked off, as if checking off boxes was the job. If it was a school assignment, where getting 70% is passing, she'd have been fine. School assignments tend to be box-checking, academic exercises that you don't have to master and often don't relate to the real world. School itself bears little resemblance to real life. Sadly, some people carry school approaches into their adult lives. Here are some mental habits that schools instill, and that you need to shed. No Fair! Wanting fairness doesn't make you immature, but refusing to help yourself because something wasn't your fault, does. Neighbors online complain sometimes that the ci