Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Day #60: What Reality TV Teaches Us About Being Nice

It happens on a lot of shows.

Two or more teams face off, then appear in front of a judging panel to find out if they've won or lost whatever challenge they were given that week.

Inevitably, the judges ask--"How did it go?"

Now, at this point, the teams don't know whether or not they won the challenge, yet most of the time, they will take this opportunity to eviscerate one or more team members.

Why?

Why not wait until AFTER you've found out whether or not you won?

If you won, then whatever issues you had during the challenge don't matter, and you're fighting with people for no reason at all.

Sometimes life is like reality television.

(I know, theoretically, it should ALWAYS be like reality television, but let's keep things honest here.)

Sometimes in life, you're working on something with people and things get a little crazy. Maybe there's fighting. Maybe there's arguing. Maybe at some point you cried over your red hot candy pastry (if you want to get specific).

The point is, wait until you find out the result before you start arguing and finger-pointing. Everyone understands that in any process there can be turmoil, but you're supposed to wait until AFTER you find out the result before you start throwing punches.

See?

Television can be very educational.

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