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Lessons in the Sky: Petty Hurts
Have you ever had a bad interaction with a coworker? One that descended into unbecoming, if not unprofessional behavior? One that caused you to lose your cool? An incident happened on a flight recently that got me thinking about professional relationships, snap judgements, and how being petty hurts.
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Lessons in the Sky: Gratitude at 30,000 Feet
I’ve been learning a lot of lessons up in the air. You all know I’m a full-time Flight Attendant, so the airplane is my office. It is a real petri dish of humanity up there. Brimming with the best and the worst of us. You can find any emotion, age, background story if you look around on a full flight. And if you look hard enough, you can also find some valuable lessons. Recently, a young man on my flight gave me a gift. A perspective shift of epic proportions. He changed the course of my day and, if I’m being honest, much more than that. I’m going to tell you our story.