Episode #51: My Son and Disappointment

Summary

Today’s episode is a little bit different. I’m inviting you to join me in a storytime that has a powerful message. This is a real story about something that happened recently with me, my son, and a lesson we both learned in the process of dealing with uncomfortable emotions, especially disappointment.

Last week, we talked all about making the data neutral, and I have a real-life example to share with you that illustrates how this works. My son taught himself to play piano from an app during the height of the pandemic, eventually getting to go to an audition he was incredibly excited about. However, he experienced what started as deep disappointment, and ended as an important lesson we can all learn from.

Tune in this week for the finest example of messy learning. We all experience disappointment, and it can be crushing to deliver disappointing news to our children. But when we give our kids the freedom to have their own experience of disappointment, allowing them to process the information themselves and not framing disappointment as a problem, everyone comes out of the other side stronger, and you can do the same for yourself in disappointing moments.

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What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• A common mistake high-achievers make when it comes to growth, learning, and disappointment.
• Why learning is messy and growth is uncomfortable.
• A story about my son teaching himself to play the piano.
• How I like to encourage my son, but also allow him to learn self-inflicted lessons.
• Why I decided, in this situation, I didn’t want to protect my son by putting bumper lanes on his disappointment.
• The reaction my son was able to have because I delivered some news he didn’t like from a neutral place of emotional safety.
• How to slow down and see that disappointment and discomfort don’t have to be a problem, and can be the currency of your success.

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