{"id":6164,"date":"2012-09-04T15:09:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T13:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=6164"},"modified":"2012-12-11T16:31:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T15:31:40","slug":"can-you-fire-your-ski-instructor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=6164","title":{"rendered":"Can you fire your ski instructor?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once in Baqueira, a ski resort in Spain I had a ski instructor who kept criticizing whatever I did. Not a word of praise no matter how hard I tried to improve. In the middle of the lesson after he told me that “all my years of ski lessons were futile and I hadn’t learned anything”, I looked at him in the face and told him “you are fired”.<\/p>\n

He could not believe me. I stared at him and said “I hired you to learn, not to get trashed, please go, I would rather ski with my family”. And he left. And I had a good day of skiing.<\/p>\n

I don’t believe that learning should be demoralizing: criticism should always be balanced with praise.<\/p>\n

As a person who lived in USA and Spain I should add that US instructors are generally uplifting. Unfortunately a lot of teachers in Spain believe that praise spoils the student. As a result many in Spain are demoralized.<\/p>\n

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Once in Baqueira, a ski resort in Spain I had a ski instructor who kept criticizing whatever I did. Not a word of praise no matter how hard I tried to improve. In the middle of the lesson after he told me that “all my years of ski lessons were futile and I hadn’t learned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,10],"tags":[725,293],"class_list":["post-6164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-micro","category-mv","tag-mv","tag-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t