“Working in a team”

One of my hobbies, which I devote enough time to, so that it has already acquired a completely professional character, is sports refereeing. I used to love playing hockey, now I love refereeing it.

Anyone who has watched a game at least once understands that a hockey referee has minimal time to make the right decision. And difficult situations happen. Therefore, the brigade is increasingly using not one, but two main referees: these are those who have such red stripes on their sleeves…

A recent situation with a colleague made me once again remember the most important psychological principle. This principle has the widest application: from work to family. The principle is extremely important, and essentially everything depends on the choice that people make in its application/non-application. The result depends.

What result? Yes, whatever.

So, we are refereeing a game, and a colleague suddenly makes a serious mistake. The game is stopped, I roll up to him and carefully, calmly, as expected, clarify: this way and that, why this decision? This is wrong: it’s right otherwise…

However, the colleague’s confidence in his own rightness is off the charts, either due to emotions or due to insufficient professional knowledge. No, he says, I’m right. To which I present the same argument that we will remember a little later: so, I say, for now we have one fool on the ice, and if I don’t correct you, there will be two. And I quickly correct the solution.