If you’ve ever raised children or taught children, you are familiar with the “Look what I can do” stage. It’s the child seeking attention and the vehicle they use is showing you what they are capable of.

I contend that “Look what I can do” extends well past childhood and the objective is the same – to seek attention.

In an adult, it may be referred to as “Showing off,” “Bragging” or “Holding Court.”

If you are forever seeking attention, you have not placed enough attention on yourself. You haven’t yet made the transition from “Look what I can do” to “Look what can be done.”

When you place enough attention on yourself, you don’t need as much from the outside and this allows you to go from performer to teacher.

The great teachers don’t advertise “Look what I can do;” that’s just a great showman.

Great teachers put the emphasis on what can be done, and the greatest of the great teach this: “Look what you can do.”

There is a stage in life where you need to capture peoples’ attention. It’s a way of getting them to notice you in a crowded field. But if attention seeking becomes a way of life, you will never find enough to fill you up. You’ll always go from one audition to another seeking a stage on which to perform until you reach the closing act.

The sooner we make the transition from “Look what I can do” to “Look what can be done” or better, the sooner we get to pay something forward, rather than take it to our grave.

We have sufficient attention on ourselves when we effortlessly use our skills to help others find out what they can do. We have discovered that seeking attention solely for ourselves is a one-way street to feeling incomplete.

If you don’t feel you’re getting enough attention, make the effort to help someone else find what they can do. It will generate enough attention to fill the both of you.

All the best,

John

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