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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just gave my notice to leave my toxic job today!  I'm just switching practice areas within the agency, so it isn't a big move, but still, it's something.  Bitch boss had the nerve to tell me that where I'm going it will be worse.  As if!  Everyone knows she's the worst boss in the entire department.  Completely delusional and abusive.  Oh, and she's also another who is way past retirement.  What is wrong with these people?![/quote]

17:05 Et seq. here ....

good luck ... some of these are clueless myopic narcissistic managers past their prime ... others are younger narcissistic clueless types ... lack of self-awareness and humility seems to be the common thread I observed in 33+ yrs. of legal practice/ 26 yrs. of federal practice.

FWIW, I can offer words of wisdom from someone who has been my friend for more than 35 yrs. and is an acknowledged master in his field, luthier William Cumpiano.

www.cumpiano.com

Substitute whatever word or field is appropriate where he mentions "guitarmaking" and these are words to live by (IMO/IME):

[u][b]BEGINNER’S MIND[/b][/u]

A crucial necessity to survival and success in guitarmaking is an appropriate attitude. I learned this from the greatest living guitarmaker, Manuel Velasquez, who told me, in his seventies, that he considered himself "still a student." After almost fifty years of guitarmaking, I realized the man had survived and prospered because he still had a beginner’s mind, and was not at all interested in whether he was or was not a "master."

The old Zen masters called a "beginner’s mind" an attitude that your knowledge is never sufficient or complete, and thus you must be perennially receptive to receiving a lesson at any time and from wherever you are and whatever it is that you do. So "beginner’s mind" is essentially a posture of humility towards what it is that you are trying to master--to accept that you are ignorant, essentially--and you are a student who is striving towards a state of lessened ignorance—rather than toward a state of mastery. Without a beginner’s mind you can’t master anything.

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Good luck & peace to all... [/quote]

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