Use My Driving Experience at a 4-Way Intersection to Help You Grow
It’s about the harm we endure when pressing our ‘rightness.’
Here goes another in a long line of articles about using life experiences to goose our growth. This one comes from a few days ago when I came to a four way stop sign intersection right near my home.
I put on my blinker to turn left. A car coming the other way got there a second or two before me and drove through the intersection.
I then proceeded to start my left turn but stopped when I saw that the car behind the last one started going through the intersection. That car had clearly gotten there well after I did but barreled through anyway.
I’m sure this has happened to all of us in our driving careers.
A righteous car crash
But it occurred to me: What if I had just continued in my left turn and resolved that I was going to keep going no matter what? In which case the other car would either stop and let me through or we’d crash.
I’d clearly gotten to the intersection first. And if we crashed? Well, I would be in the right and they would be in the wrong…
And I’d have a smashed up car.
What the heck does anything of this have to do with you? How in the heck could this anecdote possibly be helpful?
Here’s how.
