I'm telling you, I'm ready to go to the next level and talking about students about their writing. I'm going to be on the next level about talking about safety and belonging. I'm going to talk about engagement and how students need to find a way to engage with the course and not just left it off. And most importantly the idea of ethics. We all need a moral compass and ethics means not using chat gpt. It means truly finding a way to engage.
And when I tell them I'm using trauma informed basis for their field of study, I'm definitely going to talk about what that means. It doesn't mean calling people snowflakes. It means the reality that there are people who would benefit from having empathy and the use of ethics that they could be trusted and everyone could win.
Let me tell you about my friend Tony who's into real estate. He was having a hard time closing on a house as the sellers all of the sudden decided to raise the cost a slight bit just as the buyers knew they really wanted that house. The sellers wanted more money. On the day at the closing.
So Tony got with the seller realtor and said let's take a cut out of our paycheck. Let's just write off what we would normally make because we want to make these people happy.
Really the time and money the Realtors put in, the time the buyers put in, everyone would win win even though the Realtors weren't going to make as much.
But really Tony did it because he wanted these people to get the house. These are people he spent time with and got to know on that personal level that people can choose to have or not to have.
So I know there are car sales people who are taught that it's all about the sale and the scam, to see how much money you can get. And I know there are sales people out there who just want to get someone in a car they can afford.
Your moral compass and ethics which will sell them have to do with how much money you can make off of someone. If you're already trying to scam someone or get the most out of someone, you are probably compromising your ethics.
