Week 5 · Lesson 1
The Work
Eight questions. What you write is read by your facilitator and nobody else. Not your officer, not your school, not your family, and not in any report. Two of these you do not write down at all.
Week 5 of 23 · Pride and Accepting Responsibility
When was the last time you said you were wrong and meant it, with nothing added on the back of it? If you cannot remember one, write that.
Why did you learn to never give ground?
- A Because you think you are always right.
- B Because where you are from, being wrong out loud gets remembered and used later.
- C Because nobody taught you manners.
- D Because it does not matter either way.
A time you were wrong and never said it. Write what you thought would happen if you had.
Pride protects a position, a story about yourself, and something underneath. What is the something underneath?
- A That people might laugh.
- B That if you were wrong about this, you might have been wrong about a lot of it.
- C That you would lose money.
- D Nothing, it is just habit.
Nobody reads this one. What is the story you tell about yourself that you would argue forever to protect?
Who has stopped telling you the truth? Write the name, and write what you did the last time they tried.
Jesus said nothing while men lied about Him in front of the governor. Why not?
- A He had no answer for them.
- B He was scared.
- C He did not need that room to tell Him He was right, and He had nothing to prove to people who had already decided.
- D He was not allowed to speak.
Nobody reads this one. Pride walks in front of the fall, it is not the fall itself. Where in your life are you winning arguments right now that you know you are losing?
Nothing you write here goes to your officer, your school or your family.
Defining Narratives · Week 5 Written work