Mr. Lynch, NRMS Asst Principal & AD, Former math teacher and football, baseball, wrestling coach. Father of two great kids & husband to a wonderful wife. #DMGB
"You can either produce excellence or you can avoid criticism. But you cannot do both of those.
The reason that you don't have certain excellence that you want is because you are afraid of getting criticized.
You are afraid of the judgment that comes with it. You are afraid of standing out. You are afraid of being alone. You are afraid of people looking at you. You are worried about what people think of you.
There are 2 categories of things in this world:
1) Things that are up to you
2) Things that are not up to you
Which category does your reputation sit in?
Your reputation is not up to you.
I'm the one who associates your reputation with something, not you. You just do things.
What's up to you?
How you act. Your decisions. Your actions. That is up to you. Your reputation is not up to you.
Here's how I know that:
You all have a reputation about me and it's not in my control.
I get to say and do whatever I say and do up here. I am in control of saying it. I am in control of doing it. The moment words leave my lips, who has control over what is done with those words?
You!
You are in control of what you think of me. And there's no way everybody in this room is going to think the exact same thing about me. No way.
When it comes to exceptional, what we've got to understand is you can spend your whole life trying to avoid criticism and earn reputation, and it still won't be in your control.
We can waste a lot of time missing out on excellence we could have been producing if we were just simply LESS trying to engineer what we wanted other people to think about us."
@PhysInHistory@rastokke Loved learning about the Rhind Papyrus in my history of mathematics class years ago, but I was not there when it was written (contrary to student belief)
Dan Campbell said, "Grit is when you have the ability to overcome adversity in any situation. The ability to push through it, mentally, physically, to overcome."
Grit isn't talent or luck, it's your ability to endure.
It means choosing resilience.
How to develop grit👇
ALUMNI UPDATE- those kids in Miss Deiters’ science classes at New Richmond Middle School sure are lucky folks! Best wishes on a great first year! @AndersonRaptors@GreatOaksOhio@FHSchools