Prayers of Jonah (3 of 7)
Powerful Prayers
Jordan Easley
Jonah 1-3
I learned a new term this week: Illusory Superiority. That's a condition that elevates the ego and leads a person to cognitively overestimate their own abilities... It leads them to believe they are better than they are in reality.
I feel like I've met several adults... who are former athletes... that suffer from Illusory Superiority... because it seems like everyone that I talk to... claims to have been a great athlete when they were younger. Do you know anyone like that? It's like... the further we get from that time in our life... the greater the legend grows... and the better we become in our own minds.
Now, I do realize... there are some of us that actually were pretty good, back in the day... Those days for me... unfortunately... were in Elementary School.
In elementary school-I was a really good athlete, until this one day... something started spreading around my school, and all the kids in my grade started catching whatever it was... I think it was called... puberty...
...puberty really messed things up for me. Before that happened, there was no one in my school that could throw a football like I could. There was no one who could run as fast as I could... And there for a moment (in about the 5th grade), I honestly believed (in my own mind) that I was one of the greatest athletes in the world.
Anybody else peak athletically in the 5th grade?
I did... and I thought I was amazing... In that season of my life, I guess my dad picked up on my over-confidence, and really, my arrogance... so he sat me down one day and told me something that I've never forgotten...
He said, "No matter how smart you are, there will always be someone smarter. No matter how strong you are, there will always be someone stronger. And he said... it doesn't matter how fast you are... there will always be someone faster."
And as it turns out... he was absolutely... right.
When ...
Powerful Prayers
Jordan Easley
Jonah 1-3
I learned a new term this week: Illusory Superiority. That's a condition that elevates the ego and leads a person to cognitively overestimate their own abilities... It leads them to believe they are better than they are in reality.
I feel like I've met several adults... who are former athletes... that suffer from Illusory Superiority... because it seems like everyone that I talk to... claims to have been a great athlete when they were younger. Do you know anyone like that? It's like... the further we get from that time in our life... the greater the legend grows... and the better we become in our own minds.
Now, I do realize... there are some of us that actually were pretty good, back in the day... Those days for me... unfortunately... were in Elementary School.
In elementary school-I was a really good athlete, until this one day... something started spreading around my school, and all the kids in my grade started catching whatever it was... I think it was called... puberty...
...puberty really messed things up for me. Before that happened, there was no one in my school that could throw a football like I could. There was no one who could run as fast as I could... And there for a moment (in about the 5th grade), I honestly believed (in my own mind) that I was one of the greatest athletes in the world.
Anybody else peak athletically in the 5th grade?
I did... and I thought I was amazing... In that season of my life, I guess my dad picked up on my over-confidence, and really, my arrogance... so he sat me down one day and told me something that I've never forgotten...
He said, "No matter how smart you are, there will always be someone smarter. No matter how strong you are, there will always be someone stronger. And he said... it doesn't matter how fast you are... there will always be someone faster."
And as it turns out... he was absolutely... right.
When ...
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