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Craig and I were chatting over breakfast one day at the end of our trip to Mallorca.
It was such a joy to have a 90-minute breakfast beside the beach with nothing else to do but talk.
We were chatting about one, two, and three baggers, the description of people that you work with based on Chris Barrow's metaphor for people who pack bags at the supermarket as volunteers. Some people only use one bag, some use two at a time to separate cold stuff from tins, and the really good guys have one for frozen, one for fresh, and one for tins.
It's kind of a metaphor for initiative used by different people.
We were talking about having three baggers at your work, and we got on to the subject of the superstars that we work with, the people who seem to be able to do it all.
I use Rony Jung as a metaphor for Craig talking to him about the research that he does and how it's cutting-edge and innovative and relates to his practice, talking about the quality of the cases that he presents and what an educator he is, but also a leader of a department and brilliant a clinician - one of those annoying guys that's good at everything they seem to touch, or so it seems.
We chatted about that a bit longer, and then I was reminded that it was hard for Superman, too, when you go back to the story.
When we look at people and think their lives are sorted, when we think it would be great to be them because then we would be able to coast and there would be no worries, stresses, or challenges, we stop and think for a minute and realise that we're deluded.
The people that we admire or aspire to be have at least as many challenges, at least as many troubles, and at least as many stresses as we do.
Perhaps it's the metaphors or stories that they tell themselves to get over those; perhaps it's their attitude towards it. Perhaps that's what sets them apart, not the fact that they don't have the problems, just how they see the problems.
Blog Post Number - 3942
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