A coworker today told me he had never heard of Bowdoin College, or Highpoint University, until he started working in Higher Ed.
I was kind of floored, to be honest. Highpoint and Bowdoin we schools that were definitely on my radar. I wasn't smart enough to get into Bowdoin, and Highpoint, while I knew about it, just didn't end up being a school I pursued further. I knew people who applied to both schools.
What this made me think about, and realize (though it's something I think most know somewhere below the surface) is that people come into each other's lives with very different frames of reference. My frame of reference was built by my parents, their friends, their interests, my friends, their interests, my interests, my education, where I grew up, all sorts of different pieces that pull together how I look at the world. His was created the same way, creating a completely different, yet similar, view.
I think what I found most interesting was my reaction. That it didn't occur to me that people wouldn't know what I know.
That is something I really need to work on.
It is sometimes hard to realize that everyone else isn't as perfect as us :)
ReplyDeleteI completely understand where you are coming from!! I have just recently realized this myself. Things that seem so "obvious" to me, are really not obvious at all to others. I need to step back and take that in to consideration sometimes.
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