Personality is not an excuse

This Friday, I went to a school to teach pupils Chinese composition. After the experience, I learnt that personality could not consider as an excuse. This class was my first experience to teach, so I was nervous about it. I thought I was good at logic and clear thinking mind, but not hooking. Therefore I was afraid I could not catch students’ interest and they would feel boring. Also, I scared no communication and had a long distance with my class. In the one-hour class, however, they were attracted by me. When I felt they were a little tired, I thought of our tutors. I tried to do what they did in our class. I used some gestures, expressed difficult words with simple sentences, moved around, listened to their discussions carefully and encouraged them on their work. I did not think I did all of them naturally enough, but they worked well. There was no long awkward slience and they all shared their thoughts with me. I was extremely happy when I saw them interested with what I was saying. In my view, we all have bias about ourselves. Sometimes, we think that we cannot do a job well, but in fact, we are afraid to do it. We are escaping difficulties with excuses of personality. If we can face the difficulties, some of them are not that difficult actually, and we have the ability to solve them. Thus, we need confidence and do not use personality as an excuse.