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Posted
01/31/07 @ 5am

Tagged
personal, haiku

poor excuse

seeing others’ faults
is so much easier than
self-diagnosis.


3 Comments

Posted by
mikaelah
6 February 2007 @ 5pm

it goes


Posted by
mikaelah
6 February 2007 @ 5pm

oops … my keyboard is working overtime to leave it’s own ocmments…
I meant to say that using the mirror of others is easier and so much more accurate view of ourselves. painful in its accuracy.


Posted by
howard
7 February 2007 @ 6am

I hadn’t thought of it as an efficiency factor, mikaelah, but that’s an excellent point.

It’s incredibly useful to have people around you who can offer constructive feedback on what you can do to better yourself, though I had only focused on how we often avoid doing those constructive things.