Yes, it is a total different mode of thinking being able to put yourself as the playing board in the ‘game of life’. It was really hard for me to grasp at first too. Especially how they talked about how we should take responsibility for everything that happens to us in life. When they explained the accident of a drunk driver hitting another driver and also had both parties take responsibility was really hard for me to understand at first. This will be a hard thing to grasp at first, but in the long run I can see how it could make people much happier in the long run. The trickiest part is to visualize and train our minds to really think we are the board! Good luck with that!
Katie
Terries blog:
The idea of being the board was an interesting one to me. I had never thought in that way before, but after reading the chapter, I thought about it for a day or so. At my school right now, there is a lot of what I call “educational politics” going on. We have a new Athletic Director who has walked in and, basically, decided he owns our school, as well as the students in it. From the beginning I tried to work with him until I started to see what I considered to be injustices to the senior class. (These boys and girls, for the most part, have been together since kindergarten and when I see them hurting, it makes me angry and feel like I need to do something about it.) So, I started wondering how things could be different if I saw myself as the board. I have decided to sit back and wait. Maybe things will work themselves out...maybe they won’t, but it is not up to me to try to fix everything. Right?
I also liked the framework. For a little school, we have ALOT of...
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