Just when you think he can't say anything more unhinged regarding the media......... https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/donald-tr...19231.html

I am amazed that people still take what he says in these comments seriously. He is obviously speaking for effect. And people keep buying it.

You left out the most important thing.

Did his wife's purse match her shoes?

Live by the Trump, die by the Trump.

Trump does not handle criticism well, you may have noticed.

I was chatting about "this" with the wife just yesterday, how people respond to criticism. Like everyone, I've been criticized often in life. At times, I needed to listen and respond obviously, but most of them time I could easily smile and move on with my life.

When I was younger of course I was much more sensitive to it than I am now. With some maturity I learned, or tried to, when I should blow it off, and when it was meant to be constructive, or at least important. I probably went too far in that direction when I was still working, I'd hear criticism and blow it off and then it would get back to the boss and I'd have to deal with it somehow.

Trump wants an "all Trump" media outlet, all the time, no criticism. He over reacts to criticism when often it could just be ignored.

Unless directed to be mean criticism can help you if constructive.  I'd wish I'd listened to more people over the year.  Sometimes INTRApersonal skills can help as well.

I got very NAAFI at work and didn't heed criticism when I should have.

NAAFI - No Ambition and F ALL Interest.

I saw my boss maybe once a month, at best, he didn't care what I did so long as no one complained to him.

Good story.  I'd worked in a prison with at risk kids (duh) back in the mid 1990s and the state paid for grad work at Wright State for a license to teach a course in career based intervention.   Had to have academic degree for teaching and some work experience for the grad program acceptance so you could offer subjects they need and also teach job skills.  I left the prison and went back to public schools after I got the license.  Taught history and government awhile and the school I'm at (18 years now) had problems with kids not coming to school.  Could NOT kick them out due to state law.  They needed someone with my license AND I was only one in county to have it.  SO, I started it up for at risk students who are seniors and won't attend school and offered all subjects AND I had to get them jobs.   Some I put to work in the school cleaning or assisting, etc.   Heard rumblings and critics over things I was trying.  Didn't bother me.  I told other members of the staff to suggest things.  Over time I've changed things to make it better and more structured and the criticism helped I think.  This fall will be the 4th year I've been doing it at my third school teaching this program and I've got full control over schedule, subjects, and so forth.   Very rewarding but I'm always open to suggestions or criticism if I'm doing something wrong.

Working with at risk kids if a very noble endeavor.

(07-08-2019, 10:19 AM)cincydawg Wrote: Working with at risk kids if a very noble endeavor.

I really enjoy it.  I've been in scary places and dealt with some rough characters but getting those kids diplomas in the end is really rewarding.   EVERYONE wants to know when I'm retiring.   Why should I quit?  I like it and I've got good amount of time off for travel, etc.

Interesting thing I've learned while doing this: Kids do MUCH better when they are not in a class with 20 + kids.  I generally have 2-3 or less and they are hard at it doing what I lay out for them.  We do power points, work on laptops, work out of work books, and we have discussion on life.  None balk at the work as it's substantial and they all say they've learned more this way than at any time in their previous 11 years in school.

 What makes it all work are my bosses.  They leave me alone to decide everything from time a student comes to school to how much they come each week ,etc.  It's independent and allows me to work with parents and make all decisions for how to get them to graduation.  Very unique.  I've made some great contacts in the business community to help students with work as well.

I wish I had gone for something more constructive and helpful, I took the "easy road". I often have in life.

(07-08-2019, 10:41 AM)cincydawg Wrote: I wish I had gone for something more constructive and helpful, I took the "easy road".  I often have in life.

Do it now....


the older I get, the more I realize that so much of life's satisfaction comes from true productivity and helping others, and less from some hedonistic approach to life where "I get mine"....

Quote:I wish I had gone for something more constructive and helpful, I took the "easy road". I often have in life.

Some dude named Frost wrote about this.

The Road Not Taken
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[url=https://poets.org/poet/robert-frost]Robert Frost - 1874-1963

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.