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Ordinary Stupidity

Published on September 15, 2004 at Wisdom

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Jonathan Spencer’s Ordinary Stupidity

Its not that I am wanting to put myself down, but this site needs a certain amount of self depreciation, maybe because its just my ordinary ramblings. My aunt on my fathers side…

who dies lonely and intestate (actually she left a fair bit of money to me and my sister, but had lived like a a pauper), always told me about the things she had done in her life, how she had struggled in her work at bookkeeping and ruined her eyes in badly lit back rooms and so on.

I remember one of the last things she said to me before she died, “I thought I was so clever”. I understood exactly what she was driving at…face with our infalibility and mortality all our posturing seems meaningless. I hope as you read this, next time you think you are right, next time you feel you can’t back down, because you don’t just think… you KNOW, think of my aunt gasping for air on her death bed, saying “I thought I was so clever”. Back away, let it go, move on, make amends…wonder what you will leave behind, how you will be remembered and try to make it better, if it means eating humble pie, appearing stupid, apologising, saying you were wrong, then do it. Please!

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Jonathan has experience in both the nonprofit and business sectors, working in a consultative capacity and as a project manager with PCTs, charities, the arts, trade unions, businesses and individuals in the areas of Information, motivation, direction and communications development. He has helped organisations as diverse as carers charities and magazine publishers to develop strategy, policy and process to make a more efficient infrastructure. One where staff share in the gains of the organisation and the end user, whether client, patient or customer, receives the highest quality service possible. As well as being an expert in applied information technology and communication he is a qualified and experienced counsellor and motivator.