David and I just had this conversation about blind spots. It's something that I think about a lot from time to time.
Definition: something that you consistently mess up, that is obvious to everyone around you but for some reason you just can't get it together.
Maybe you don't think it's that important, or maybe you just don't think you can do it. For whatever reason it seems impossible to you. But put another person in your place and they'd have it figured out in five minutes.
And if you could master it, you would rule the world.
Our blind spot -- David and mine -- is organization. Other people automatically put things away when they are finished with them, but this never occurs to us. Other people have "to do" lists that are actual tools for getting things done. Half the time for me a "to do" list is an oppression -- a list of things that it pains me to know are still undone. It makes me want to hide under my desk or in a closet until those things go away.
My mother says her blind spot is smoking. I know someone else whose blind spot is defensiveness. And someone else who doesn't know how to manage money.
If we just changed the way we think about these things, we could do them. Other people do them every day.
What's your blind spot?
Comments