Double Fault

What are your strengths?  I'm sure you can come up with a few of those.

What are your weaknesses?  I'm sure you can come up with a few of those as well.

We are all fairly okay when it comes to analyzing ourselves.  Now, look at another person you know.  What are their strengths and weaknesses?  I'm sure you'll be able to analyze them pretty well.

So, what is the point of this?

The point of this is quite simply.  Be sure you can recognize the faults in yourself before you analyze the faults in others.  This comes to be an annoying thing to people.  The purpose of this experiment is to help people realize they are not perfect before they go and criticize others.

No one is above criticism.  Even if you believe you are perfect, believe it or not, you are not.  To grow as a person, you must recognize your faults and work on improving those faults.

For instance, assume that Eric is doing something.  He is doing a horrible job at it (or just isn't as good as you are).  Now, assume that he sees you doing the same job and starts complaining about how you are doing your job.  How do you feel?

I'm sure you'd be pretty angry with him.  You would probably start criticizing about the many things that he did wrong.  In the end, there would be a big fight.  The problem here isn't the fact that errors were done on the job.  The problem is the failure to recognize fault.

And the fight really heats up when he doesn't recognize or believe that he is doing the job wrong.  He could sit there and insist that he knows how to do the job and that you are just incompetent.  He failed to recognize his faults, and as a result, he as failed as a worker.

What both people need to do is to recognize the faults they possess with the task to be done.  When you recognize the faults you possess, you can better learn to improve upon them.  While you may address the faults that exist in your abilities, you will grow to be more competent at the job.  Eric, however, still remains the crappy worker as before.  Why?  Because he didn't recognize the faults existed, and he never worked on them.  Therefore, he never grew as a worker.

Now, I'm not a man of religion, but I used to be as a child.  I recognize my lack of faith as a fault in my character to some, and I may hope to work on that some day.  But one thing I will not do, is be a man of religion.  Religion, to me, has a tendency to be faulty.  One of the reasons religion can be faulty (and will never change) is because of its tendency to judge.  Which, if we want to really think about it, finding faults in others is pretty much the same as judging them.  The Bible has a verse about that.  In Matthew 7:1-5, it says "Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye."

So, what it says is this.  Do not judge others unless you expect to be judged yourself.  Eric can not be trying to help you with your problem if he doesn't recognize his own problems.  So, I offer this advice, if you are to judge someone else on how they do their job, just be sure that you are excellent at the job yourself.