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The next morning what????

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he woke me up early and took me back to the same shop. The mechanic handed me a wrench.My father said, “Fix it.”I looked at him and said, “I don’t know how.”He said, “Exactly. Yesterday, you judged a man doing something you couldn’t do yourself.”I stood there embarrassed.Then my father said something I never forgot:“If you don’t understand the work, don’t confuse your ignorance with the worker’s i

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ncompetence.”The mechanic eventually found the problem. It was something small that took hours to diagnose.That day changed the way I looked at people.I stopped laughing at the person who couldn’t get the perfect shot, because I couldn’t play the game at their level.

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I stopped dismissing someone’s business because I thought their decisions were stupid, because I hadn’t built what they had built.I stopped looking at someone’s finished product and assuming the process was easy just because I couldn’t see the years behind it.You don’t have to admire everyone.You don’t have to agree with everyone.And you don’t have to pretend someone’s work is perfect.

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But before you call someone incompetent, ask yourself one question:“Could I actually do what they’re doing?”If the answer is no, then maybe your first response shouldn’t be criticism.Maybe it should be respect.Because it’s easy to judge the person holding the wrench when you’ve never had to fix the engine.