I was embarrassed to hear ‘I wish I could be as good as you…” more than once. This sentence always felt wrong to me. Let me explain…
Most often, the phrase comes from a good place; the person delivering this message intends to compliment us on something. The assumption they make is that we are doing something better than they (ever?) could. That, for some mysterious reasons we achieved mastery, and they weren’t able to. The problem I…
