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PBIS: Self-Pride 252 Views
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Description:
We’re not saying you should be a cocky jerk, but we are saying you should take pride in your accomplishments. For instance, once we drew a hand turkey. We’re still bragging about that one.
Transcript
- 00:01
We speak student!
- 00:03
Self-Pride a la Shmoop [image of an apple kept on a book]
- 00:06
All right, here's the deal.
- 00:07
We're not all Michael Phelps.
- 00:08
In fact, most of us aren't. Hmm.
Full Transcript
- 00:11
As much as our mothers might wish we had
- 00:12
22-going-on-however-many Olympic medals,
- 00:15
well, she more likely got this instead. [Phelps dressed in a suit standing by a pool]
- 00:19
What a heroic effort.
- 00:20
It's easy to look at people like Phelps or
- 00:22
J. K. Rowling or Stephen Hawking or whoever
- 00:25
and be envious of their accomplishments.
- 00:27
It's even easier to look at people around us [image of a ground with grass]
- 00:29
and wonder why we're not on par with them.
- 00:32
Ever scroll through Facebook and see their statuses
- 00:35
about how happy your friends are
- 00:37
with their new job and their new significant other [someone checking Facebook status]
- 00:40
or their killer tan they got on the trip to Cancun?
- 00:43
Well, and then you check out your page,
- 00:45
which is essentially a love letter to your cat,
- 00:47
pizza, and sleeping.
- 00:48
Well, news flash.
- 00:49
Just because you're not sun bathing on the beaches of Cancun [a man enjoying at a beach]
- 00:52
doesn't mean you're not doing some cool things.
- 00:55
You don't have to have 22 Olympic gold medals.
- 00:57
But you did set your school's butterfly record in your last meet.
- 01:00
Maybe you didn't write seven world famous books,
- 01:03
but you do like to write for fun. [woman reading a story book to a small girl]
- 01:05
And your little sister who used to have nightmares
- 01:06
all the time? Well, ever since you started reading
- 01:08
your stories to her, they've gone away.
- 01:10
And maybe you're not gonna make your living as a renowned
- 01:13
theoretical physicist, but that B+ you got on your physics test?
- 01:16
Well, you earned it and you're pretty proud of it [a teacher talking to a student in a classroom]
- 01:18
and, for you, that was a great grade.
- 01:20
Getting down on yourself is easy,
- 01:22
especially when it seems like everyone around you
- 01:24
has their life figured out. [someone scrolling through Facebook]
- 01:26
Here's a secret: No one ever has it all figured out.
- 01:31
Even Phelps is always pushing to be better
- 01:33
and shave off a half-second or two.
- 01:35
And we only get to hear about the good stuff he does.
- 01:37
He probably sucks in a million other ways. [Phelps talking to someone on a phone]
- 01:39
Well, keep in mind there's a fine line
- 01:41
between being a cocky, arrogant jerk
- 01:43
and a sniveling mess in need of
- 01:45
constant reassurance.
- 01:47
So how much pride should you take in your work? [image of a speedometer]
- 01:49
Well, let's look at this girl.
- 01:50
She got the lead in her play.
- 01:52
She worked hard and delivered a great performance.
- 01:54
You tell her she was fabulous and she replies like this:
- 01:59
Charming. [someone giving a bouquet of red roses to a woman]
- 02:00
She also tells you she's been encouraged to audition
- 02:02
for Juilliard and she feels like she's destined to get in.
- 02:05
After all, have you seen what passes for talent these days?
- 02:08
Blegh. Too much pride isn't pretty.
- 02:10
It's braggy and arrogant. [a gorilla outside a window]
- 02:12
But say you go up to her after the play
- 02:14
and tell her she was fabulous and she replies like this:
- 02:18
You spend the rest of the night assuring her
- 02:20
that, contrary to her belief,
- 02:21
Meryl Streep has not had bowel movements
- 02:23
with more talent than her.
- 02:24
So a complete lack of pride isn't pretty, either. [Meryl Streep giving a thumbs up]
- 02:27
But let's say you tell her she was fabulous
- 02:29
and she replies like this:
- 02:32
There it is.
- 02:32
The sweet spot.
- 02:34
She recognizes what she accomplished,
- 02:36
takes pride in it, but stays humble. Nice. [woman exiting the stage]
- 02:39
Bottom line is that you can beat yourself up
- 02:41
all you want over not being Michael Phelps.
- 02:43
But chances are, you've got something else to be proud of
- 02:46
and you're probably the best at being you. [a man scoring a goal]
- 02:48
You might not make the front of a Wheaties box,
- 02:50
but it might very well make the door of your parents' refrigerator.
- 02:53
And eventually, you'll find someone you love
- 02:55
who loves you back. [picture of a couples wedding]
- 02:56
And then life's really good.
- 02:59
[whoosh]
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