>Once a person I used to work for told me this: you're cute, smart, but dumb! ... and believe it or not, it became a life lesson. I remember that at that time, after a very long day of work, I arrived at the hotel and when I thought I was going to rest an electrical fault originated and the wing of the hotel where the room I occupied was left without electricity. In fact, they informed me that they were working on it, but that they would take time to return it, I asked to change my room to another area and the hotel was full because there were several conventions and congresses of the international labor organization (ILO) of which I was a speaker for the company I represented. There was a person who proposed to change me to a room in the wing (his, where there was electricity). There was no indecent proposal, on the contrary, from the very beginning it was clear that it was an exchange of rooms. I'm not that sensitive. >I'll stick with what he taught me from this particular experience. He was "the customer", and we had brought a lot during the day, so I answer him, not calmly, I prefer to wait for them to replenish the electricity in the wing where I am.... You are segura?...si take it easy... Are you sure Janitze? ... and once again I told him... If I wait. The experience was of terror, insomnia and a lot of heat 🥵 the electricity came back in the early morning and should be ready at 6:30, obviously, I was shocked, late at night and while I was having my breakfast and my coffee, in the hotel cafeteria, I find him, and after a few good days, he asks me: How did you sleep? ... Halfway, I answer, and that's when he blurted out his famous phrase... it's just that you're cute, smart, but dumb. I looked at him with a face of... this bastard!!! ... But I only managed to ask him... Why, that phrase? ... I gave you the option to change your room, and you didn't want to. That for me, is to be empathetic and considerate I told him, and he responds... And silly. And here came the slap in the form of a reality bath... And I learned that when "life presents us with an opportunity, we have to take it because if it comes to you, it's because it's designed for you," he told me. That left an indelible mark on me and today I try as much as possible not to be silly. Definitely, getting out of the comfort zone requires determination, but also courage and sharpness of the senses so as not to miss opportunities. The most complicated thing about this is to have enough clarity and be selfish, yes, always trying that if we are doing well, our environment too. It is a whole process and at a specific pace. >We have all been fools at some point. Sometimes we realize after several mistakes and other times someone comes, like this client, and gives you your dose of reality. *And from this anecdote I can make a book*... because intelligence does not exempt you from naivety, lol for the times I've been silly. I'm still working on those changes, and I no longer miss so many opportunities to assume that I must be well first. Janitze 🦋