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How To Deal With Being Misunderstood
We’ve all been misunderstood at one point in our life.
You’ve tried to help a friend and it turned out badly. You’ve told something positive and it was understood the other way around.
This never feels good but we have created an automatic response to protect ourselves from being hurt. Most of the time, this manifests as a string of sentences trying to justify whatever just happened.
One of the most frustrating types of misunderstandings is having your goals misunderstood.
My main goal, in the long run, is to inspire people to become life-long learners and realize how languages can be the most rewarding type of learning experience.
In order to achieve this, there are a number of skills I need to acquire, among which can be found the capacity to inspire with my words, to organize my thoughts more clearly to express them or to learn more varied languages to never forget the importance of those to me.
There are numerous other skills I need to get and most of what I now do should pile up in time and allow me to achieve my goals.
Yet, long-term goals can never truly be understood by others because they are too deeply ingrained in us, in our experience and view of life.
