Truth and Anger.

Someone on facebook asked me what is the truth. Hmmmmm...

Let me put it this way. The truth very often hurts. So when someone says something and it makes you angry there is normally truth in it. And the more intense your anger then probably the more truth there is. The trick is proportionality. Anger out of proportion to the event.

Lets try a few examples here.

When FGM organised the training for the Juniors, it pissed a few of people off. They went around saying that FGM was making MCF look bad. Lets look at this rationally. Doesn't it really make MCF look good?? That it allows space for others to do a job that it cannot do or does not want to do. So why such intense anger? And who got angry?

When FGM stated that the Olympiad is not your personal fiefdom and not a place for ill gotten holidays, who got angry? Isn't that the obvious fact?

When FGM stated that an arbiters job is to behave professionally, why was there such angry responses? Who got pissed?

You get the drift.

So when you find that you get angry over a legitimate question or statement, look inside and find out which truth you are afraid of. For if you have nothing to hide, you will just try to explain and correct the misunderstanding.

I think that is as good a clue as any to finding the truth. But it will be your truth. Not mine. I get angry over different things. I get angry when I see innocent children bullied and I get angry when I see the huge potential in our kids destroyed by people with hidden agendas purporting to do it for the love of chess.

So what makes you angry? Go there and look for your own truth.