We adults often forget just how much power our words can have on the young people who look up to us. We can also forget we are adults now, not those children who needed so much outside validation, and we can define our own selves. I'm glad you have been unlearning the negative programming you received. Isn't being an adult awesome?!
Perhaps you would have been further along in your career, had you learned these lessons long ago. Perhaps not. But knowing you the way I do, I am sure you did the best you could have done back then with what you knew at that time, and that's all anyone can do.
We adults often forget just how much power our words can have on the young people who look up to us. We can also forget we are adults now, not those children who needed so much outside validation, and we can define our own selves. I'm glad you have been unlearning the negative programming you received. Isn't being an adult awesome?!
Perhaps you would have been further along in your career, had you learned these lessons long ago. Perhaps not. But knowing you the way I do, I am sure you did the best you could have done back then with what you knew at that time, and that's all anyone can do.