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Originally Posted by Amanda Morrison
For being inspired students and mentors, we sure don't act that way a lot of the time. We're fallible. We get passionate, we act out, we don't think. We run across the field screaming/cursing at the referees and we expect FIRST to have a plentiful supply the next year. Many of the people who are giving knee-jerk reactions here on CD need to have their reflexes checked.
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I'll agree, to a point. Humans, by nature, get emotional about things. Especially these 120-pound pieces of metal, plastic, and occasionally wood that we put together. So if something that someone feels shouldn't happen happens that involves the aforementioned 120-pound creation, I would be more surprised if they
didn't react with some degree of negative feeling (inward or outward). Perhaps that's not how it should be in the world--but it's how it
is in the world.
That being said, let's watch out for each other. If you sense someone's about to lose their cool with someone else, pull 'em aside and let them air it out between the two of you. Whether they're right and need to alert someone quickly or are wrong and just need a deep breath and a Mountain Dew, odds are that you'll be helping them cool off to the point that their beef (real or imagined) is at least processed enough to be edible.
I hope this post made sense--great posts are not meant to be made at two in the morning. But to put it simply, don't let your friends and teammates get too steamed about things in FIRST. It's supposed to be something we
enjoy doing, remember?
