Being the outsider makes you notice things insiders stopped seeing. Write those things down.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

Being new or on the edge of a group comes with a strange kind of sight. You still see the rules nobody explains, the thing everyone puts up with, the question that stopped being asked. People who have been inside for years have gone blind to all of it, which is not their fault, just what familiarity does.

Keep a note on your phone this week for things that strike you as odd at school, at practice, at work. Do not try to fix them yet. Written down, they become observations you will still have in a year.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What would you write down from your first weeks somewhere new?

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