Pick of the Week 23

I am pretty sure I have told you that it wasn’t until my 50th year that I did something (nope, can’t remember what) that I didn’t need somebody else to tell me was good because I KNEW it was good and I was proud of it myself.  

You see, I think maybe one of the reasons I haven’t been proud of what I did and who I was as a person was because I had such a very low self-image.  I didn’t value anything about myself.  So when Kevin and other people told me I was clever and not stupid at first I didn’t believe it.  I thought they MUST be wrong.

Because I really didn’t believe I was clever, someone suggested I do an IQ test.  Truthfully I wasn’t sure if I wanted to or not because, well, how would I know if it was accurate or not?  What if the results said that I WAS clever or stupid but was actually giving me false information?  How could I be sure I could trust it?

So, you know what I did?  I found THREE different online tests and took them all, thinking well, three tests can’t be wrong.  And all THREE told me my IQ was just below that of a genius.  OH MY GOODNESS!  So I really AM clever?  I will admit that many times since then I’ve still doubted it because I feel like I’m not like that.

However, disbelieving the evidence (well, triple evidence) doesn’t make the actual EVIDENCE not true.  Feelings don’t define what I am as a person.  Each individual is unique in their own way and EVEN IF they aren’t top of the IQ pile, they have OTHER talents that we should acknowledge and encourage them to discover and develop.

TREASURE

Evidence trumps over feelings any day.  We all have different talents and abilities and we should encourage ourselves AND each other to find and use them to the best of our ability.