TED: Jamie Oliver
Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.
Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.
Almost two weeks ago I received news that I had been waiting for for almost a year. News about goals, about my future. And the news was not favorable. Short story: I applied to a competitive graduate teacher program that included full tuition at a private institution and a stipend your intern year. I knew the competition would be stiff. In the end there were 45 applicants for eight or nine slots; nine of the applicants were bilingual. The odds were not in my favor.
I decided at the time I would not tilt at windmills. But because I am a person that needs feedback and condolences I titled at windmills with people I know. And basically, they said the same thing: the odds were not in my favor. Phew, it’s not me – it’s them.
That’s not to say it wasn’t me. Because it might have been. But those odds? They weren’t good.
While funkified I read Penelope Trunk’s post How to Get Unstuck in Life
The act of moving toward something helps you crystallize where, exactly, you want to be moving.
She’s right. I need to move toward something again. It doesn’t have to be the final thing, but something on the path. This process has taught me a great deal more patience than I’ve had before, I’m an immediate gratification sort of person (yes, yes, it’s my ENTJ shining through again). I can now wait for something, but there has to be something at the other end – waiting for the sake of waiting, well … I think that’s called stagnation.
So, with all that: onward and upward. Or something.