I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was by Barbara Sher

Author:Barbara Sher
Language: ru
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780307763204
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2010-08-24T20:00:00+00:00

what you had to do, and began,

though the voices around you

kept shouting

their bad advice

… little by little,

as you left their voices behind,

the stars began to burn

through the sheets of clouds,

and there was a new voice

which you slowly

recognized as your own,

that kept you company

as you strode deeper and deeper

into the world …

THE UGLY DUCKLING SYNDROME

Hans Christian Andersen knew all about this problem, and he wrote about it in his famous story about the ugly duckling, which, you will remember, was neither a duckling nor ugly. He was a swan raised by ducks, just as Marnie was a professor who was raised by bar owners. And as in the fairy tale, this little swan’s family thought she was a very peculiar kind of duck. But heredity is just as strong as environment in determining who you are. Every human being is carrying genes from unknown ancestors, like a chest of buried treasures. That’s why a family of singers can have a child who loves farming; a family of judges and lawyers can have a child who is a gifted actor. “Being born in a duck yard does not matter,” Andersen concludes, “if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg.”

So what kind of egg were you hatched from? What kind of animal are you? In the course of working with Marnie and other “ugly ducklings,” I developed a set of five exercises to help people claim with pride their valuable differences from their tribe. The first of these exercises is to stage a debate.

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