In my view and orbit, you don’t get a trophy for participating. Well, not just for participating. There’s participation that entails satisficing (doing the bare minimum) and then there’s participation where you really give it your all. The latter gets recognition. The problem is many people just want to satisfice and there’s no shame around it. I’m not for shaming people. But I am for holding people accountable. Also, sadly, I not only hold people accountable, but I also have high expectations.
Yes, I know holding high expectations on a continuous basis can lead to feelings of grand disappointment. I suppose I am cursed that way.
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psychologistmimi 
You aren’t alone in that sentiment. Our own kids were disgusted with participation awards but I can see how some kids might benefit from the recognition, particularly if they get absolutely no recognition at home. It’s sad to say but for so many kids, participation awards may be the only positive acknowledgment of their existence.
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Me too! 😉
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When it Comes to Human Beings Competence Will Be
A Very Relative Concept Like Human Morality and Even Ethics
When it Comes to Nature and Trees and Sharks There is One True
Competent Champion Species Living in Balance With Nature Even As
Apex Predator in Some Cases Along With A REAL ABILITY TO PRODUCE
A-SEXUAL
VIRGIN BIRTHS
YES THE 450 MiLLioN
Year Trophy Awards to
Sharks Yet All They Need
to Survive is Teeth that May
Be Replaced at Rates of 30,000
in A Lifetime and Electromagnetic
Receptors That Are the Best to Detect
The Electromagnetic Fields that All Living
Creatures Create in Their Every Day
Existence New Now oh God Yes
True Shark Week is Coming Soon
Yet Truly A Weak And Cowardly Human
Who Has HIS Eye Set on Vengeance Against
HiS Own Species
Is More Dangerous to
Us Potentially Than All the
Sharks in the World in One
Year As Humans Have Become
Mastered by THeir Tools And Also Ignorance
That Harms, Rapes, Maims, And Kills the Rest
Of the Circle of Life in Terms of NaTuRE ALL Most
True Indeed
Humans Have
Become Tools of
Ignorance And Are Currently
Falling And Failing Ill to the Pill
of Instant Gratification As Truly Just
The Dopamine a Smart Phone All Lit
Up With So Many Colors of Instant Gratification
In So Many Ways Handed to A Child Almost From Birth
Comes to Illustrate So Well What ‘John B Calhoun’ Studies
in A Rat Utopia Prepared in the 1960’s And True While Humans
Are Not Rats We Still Have a Common Ancestor Before the Dinosaurs
Went Extinct 66 MiLLioN Years or So Ago When the Gulf of Mexico Came
to Be Through the Force of An Asteroid Hitting the Earth then And then We
And the Rest of Our Rodent Ancestors Common to 75 MiLLioN Years Ago
Started to Rise
Eventually With
Opposable Thumbs
to Grasp Objects and
Eventually Make Tools
And Sadly Now Be Mastered
By Those Tools and For All Practical
Intents and Purpose in Many Cases have
Become Those tools As True THere is no me
HeaR Except for the Tools of Words i Am Currently
Using to Project Avatars of me on Small to Big Screens Now
Oh How Oz Has Come to Be So Many Humans Falling Failing
Asleep in the Poppy Fields of Opiate Producing Hand Held Machines
Attention Spans (>3 Seconds) Less than A Gold Fish Truly if Sharks
Could Talk they
Would Be Ashamed
Of Us and if the Rest of
Nature Could Speak The Language
Might Be Setting the World As We Know
it On Fire in a Multi-Colored ‘Orange’ Way
of Incompetence
That Indeed is What
Humans Have to Offer
Most to the Rest of Nature Now
SMiLes What A Blessing to have a
Competent Human Being in the Health
Field Like You Dear Miriam Yet What Will
it Be Like When Newer Generations Come
to Be In Charge Oh What a CoNuNDRuM WHeRE
Are the New Generations of Leaders NoW at Highest
Levels Truly What the Hell Are We Even Doing HeaR
Except for Consuming the Earth With Jaws the Tools
We Have
Come to Make
As Teeth Rotting Now
Eating The Rest of Nature
Out of Balance the Most Yes
The Lesson of Sharks If You Wanna
Stay Around Longer Than Trees You
Don’t Do Human…
At Least
As Far As
Opposable
Thumbs Go
And Becoming
Less than Nature in
Balance Yes Becoming
the Machines We Create Failing…
Competence It is A Problem of Human
So-Called Modernity A Huge Difference
is We Don’t Reproduce A-Sexually and
Replace our Teeth Naturally Across a Lifespan
John B Calhoun’s Study of A Prepared Rat Utopia
Showed That When Instant Gratification Becomes the Rule
And Social Roles Disappear And Males No Longer Defend
Their Territories And Females Became More Aggressive Among themselves
Like the Young Folks Already In Japan and Increasingly in the United States they
Lose All interest in Reproducing and Eventually (Rats) Did Go Extinct Spiraling
Faster in Yes OH NO
A Downward
Fall they
Went
to Extinction
Where Instant
Gratification Replaces
What the F to Do Next to Breathe…
i Do Not Play this Consumer Game
of Never Having Enough Separated From
Nature Wearing So Many Clothes Passive
of Human Cultures Until i Have become
ONLY the Tools
NOPE, Yes,
i Master them
Free And Live
the Best of Both
Worlds Until Humans
‘Blow the Rest oF it Up’
And All that’s Left is A Naked Beach…
SMiles me and ‘Nova’ Are Still Living HeaR Naked Enough Whole
Complete And i Don’t Need A God Damned ‘Dirty Orange Ape Gun’
to be a Man…
Yet As Far as
‘That Movie’ Goes
i Will DO ORanGuTan With SMiLes..:)
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The wisdom is in knowing the difference.
The problem is that the people at the top of the hierarchy control access to the solutions, and can be stingy providing that access to someone who really needs it. ‘Best practices’ don’t always trickle down, or if they do, not soon enough.
I had my cardiologist tell me, when I shook a paper that supported what I was telling him in front of his nose, that it took about FIFTEEN YEARS for research results to make it into their professional GUIDELINES. He said I was right, and I was. The previous doctor wouldn’t even look at the research paper.
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