{"id":1743,"date":"2023-08-07T11:42:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T08:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2023-08-07T11:43:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T08:43:59","slug":"the-whiners-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/the-whiners-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The whiners room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1066\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Jalapix-14-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dolphins_training_blog\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Jalapix-14-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Jalapix-14-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Jalapix-14-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MG_9599.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When my friend Elly taught in a middle school, he never hung out in the teacher&#8217;s room. He told me he couldn&#8217;t bear the badmouthing of students, the whining and the blaming.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, not all teachers are like this. In fact, most of them aren&#8217;t. And of course, trolling isn&#8217;t reserved to the teacher&#8217;s room. Just about every organization, every online service, every product and every element of our culture now has chat rooms and forums devoted to a few people looking for something to complain about. Some of them even do it on television.<\/p>\n<p>The fascinating truth is this: the people in these forums aren&#8217;t doing their best work. They rarely identify useful feedback or pinpoint elements that can be changed productively either. In fact, if you solved whatever problem they&#8217;re whining about, they wouldn&#8217;t suddenly become enthusiastic contributors. No, they&#8217;re just wallowing in the negative ions, enjoying the support of a few others as they dish about what&#8217;s holding them back.<\/p>\n<p>It pays no dividends to go looking for useful insight from these folks. Go make something great instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my friend Elly taught in a middle school, he never hung out in the teacher&#8217;s room. He told me he couldn&#8217;t bear the badmouthing of students, the whining and the blaming. Of course, not all teachers are like this. In fact, most of them aren&#8217;t. And of course, trolling isn&#8217;t reserved to the teacher&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[2651,795,747,1026,800],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}