“Bad people cannot be excellent professionals”

“A bad person never becomes a good professional”, said the father of multiple intelligences, Howard Gardnerin an interview given to the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia.

In this interview he gave us very interesting reflections and, with this, offered us the possibility of maturing an idea that is the reflection of a devastating truth. Only good people can become excellent professionals. Bad people, for their part, can never become bad people, although it is true that they can achieve great technical expertise.

This leads us to think about the possibility of categorizing people as good or bad. This distinction really seems fictitious to us, since human beings do not respond to a dichotomy, but rather we are an amalgamation of qualities that, Of course, we can understand them as good or bad.

When we weigh the conjunction of these qualities, the dark part may outweigh the bright part; It is precisely with this that we give meaning to the phrase that heads the article.

Kindness and balance, the basis of a good professional

There must be a balance between commitment, ethics and excellence to become a good professional.“be really good”

In this sense, This fragment of the interview with Howard Gardner is not wastedbecause the great sense that adjusts his words is reflected:

-Interviewer: Why are there excellent professionals who are bad people?

-Howard: We discovered that there aren’t any. Actually, bad people cannot be excellent professionals. They never become one. They may have technical expertise, but they are not excellent.

-E: I can think of some exceptions…

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-H: What we have proven is that the best professionals are always ECE: excellent, committed and ethical.

-E: Can’t you be excellent as a professional but a bad person as a person?

-H: No, because You do not achieve excellence if you do not go beyond satisfying your ego, your ambition or your greed. If you do not commit, therefore, to objectives that go beyond your needs to serve those of everyone. And that requires ethics.

-E: To get rich, it often gets in the way.

-H: But Without ethical principles you can become rich, yes, or technically good, but not excellent..

-E: It is reassuring to know.

-H: Not so much today, because we have also discovered that Young people accept the need for ethics, but not when starting their careers, because they believe that without elbowing they will not succeed. They see ethics as the luxury of those who have already achieved success.

The importance of being, above all, a human soul

“Learn all the theories. Master all the techniques, but when you touch a human soul, be just another human soul.”.Carl Gustav Jung

It is important that before being professionals we are people, really that is what provides balance in the development of our professional qualities. We cannot separate ourselves from ourselves; That is, in a certain way we cannot dissociate our inner life from our professional life.

We talk about essence, about those qualities that help us not get lost among people, to know ourselves and not know ourselves, to transform ourselves through lessons, to have a beautiful heart, to improve ourselves every day and to contemplate ourselves as a rainbow of colors.

Because, furthermore, If we have to keep in mind something, it is that people are sometimes white, sometimes black and sometimes of a thousand colors. Balancing the balance towards the positive is how we will be able to be more than a good professional, we will also achieve excellence in the different areas of our life.

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