When O Means Outstanding: Rethinking Assumptions, Power, and Listening
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When O Means Outstanding: Rethinking Assumptions, Power, and Listening
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A single letter changed everything. I brought home a report card full of “O’s” for Outstanding and watched my dad read them as zeros. That moment became a lifelong lesson about assumptions, authority, and what happens when certainty replaces curiosity.
In this episode, I revisit that scene, a bedroom shadowed by illness and alcohol, and trace how misread signals shape the way we parent, lead, and listen. We talk about leaving room to be wrong, asking what a metric truly measures, and why credibility grows from course correction, not perfection.
If you’ve ever felt unseen or unheard, this one’s for you.
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