Tell me if I’m the only one who experienced this. Your parents enrolled you and your siblings in a variety of activities. Or maybe they didn’t, but through the course of going to school, meeting and making friends and growing up, it became apparent to you that your siblings were much better at some activities than you were. I mean. A lot better.
Mary’s best friend and Mary on her first day of kindergarten
But you had some consolation: the reverse was also true: you were better at some activities than they were, or at least that’s how you saw it, and so it kind of all evened out.
But here’s the point. Once you came to this realization, how did you handle the activities that you weren’t so good at? Did you lean into them so that you’d improve and maybe overtake a sibling? Or, as you became aware of…let’s just call them your rankings in various activities…did you find yourself stepping back a little when participating in “their” activities, so that your siblings could own theirs? And found and owned yours. ‘Cause that’s what I did.
In Episode 4 of My Act Four, which drops tomorrow, I talk about this and ask myself a few follow-up questions to push myself forward today.
Catch Episode 4 here.
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