<h2>Showing Others How Smart They Really Are IF They Let Go Of Their Inflated Or Deflated Egos</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">If you follow my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rachel.france06" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rachel France FB</a> or <a href="https://www.instagram.com/biomechanics_education/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Instagram</a> pages you may notice I try to stimulate conversation with questions around training methods, common ways of thinking, how to better understand human movement and ultimately how we can better help our clients. </span>

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You'll also see that my posts often spark both excitement, engaged discussions and then also rudeness, anger and ignorance. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE being challenged, that's what we will discuss today. But there is a difference between a discussion and putting your side of the argument or opinion across and just being a ... rude person.

And sometimes, you put out a post or an email and you can feel like the guy in the picture at the top, feeling battered and bruised all because you put out a piece of content with the goal of helping someone.

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Unfortunately, the way that we are wired as humans mean we always focus more on the negative sides. Do you ever find that?

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">I am VERY conscious of my choice of words, use of questions and I am fully aware of how they may or may not be perceived or interpreted.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Several things often become apparent…</span>

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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">People use throwaway comments that can be easily misunderstood both online and face to face.</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">People read and believe things just because </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gary down the gym  said so</span></i></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is often a lack of clarity about WHY things work</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Text/copy can read with differing emphasis depending upon the reader bias</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">People can feel threatened and become very defensive during debate </span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sometimes I just like to discuss thoughts on subjects that will ALWAYS be a hypothesis</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ANYONE who posts educational content should feel a very heavy sense of responsibility for the information they put out </span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Just because something happens does not always indicate WHY it happened</span></li>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">What I love is a really good discussion that is healthy and yet challenges research, common bias and what is taught on courses, even the really good ones.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">My true passion is in education, educating and the experience of learning. Enabling autonomous learning and showing others how smart they </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">really</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> are IF they let go of their inflated or deflated egos. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">School for me was a bad experience, as it is for many and can leave us feeling or thinking, we are not very bright or capable when in fact school should be doing the exact opposite.</span>

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<h3><b>Why Is This?</b></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">School, for me, was a lesson in box-ticking. There is one answer and you should know it but more often than not, I had nothing to anchor it to!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">What I want to try to show others is how to question things logically and systematically to work a solution out by linking it to something of relevance to them. This is what educators should do. This is also imperative if you work with another human’s body, that faces so many variables, and have to make decisions about them. What we shouldn’t be doing is </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">winging</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> it or doing something because that is what your tutor said.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The single most important thing in YOUR personal training business is THE CLIENT stood in front of you. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Chances are YOU are the best person to help them even if it means a referral.</span>

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<h3><b>The Point Of This Blog</b></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">I want YOU to have the confidence to challenge people like ME.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Being an educator is such a cool job but some do it better than others and maybe that is because some see it as a job and others as a purpose.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The point I want to make is that educators don’t necessarily KNOW MORE. They simply have a skill or qualification in influencing others. We should also be creating autonomous learners, not parrots or followers</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Being influenced by and educator holds risk </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Because who should we trust to educate us, right?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Let me give you an example to the point I am trying to make ….. </span>

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<h2><b>Social Media/Internet For Information/Education</b></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Clearly, times have changed from when education was solely done from schools, colleges, universities and libraries. We now have the ‘luxury’ of the internet and social media! </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">This is a fantastic way of accessing information and education from our own homes, while on a bus, training or pretty much anywhere with some wifi. For some demographics, this may be the only source of education they can access. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The problem with this is clear….very often, we have no idea of the background, nor the intent, of the individual we are learning from.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Are they even qualified?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">What are they achieving from putting information online?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Do they follow guidelines?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Are they governed by a recognised body?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Do they know YOUR limitations?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you know theirs?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Is the information accurate?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">How would you know? </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">What would you gain or lose from following their programme, advice, training?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Educators should always be accredited, recognised, validated by governing bodies who quality assure their content and its delivery along with the entire process to protect YOU, the learners, from potential charlatans. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Now don’t get me wrong there are some educators and some subjects doing an AWESOME job online but again it’s not these guys I am talking about. It’s those </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">keyboard warriors</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">….</span>

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<h3><b>Keyboard Warriors - Who Are They?</b></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">If you use social media a lot</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">If you have ever been ‘trolled’ </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">You will know what I am talking about but there was a time when I had no idea what an online ‘troll’ was. I still had the image of a book I read as a child and the troll that goes </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">clip clip clop on the bridge</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">….you know the one, right!?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Anyway, the problem with gaining education or seeking information online is that without clarity throw away comments can be very misleading and social media is rife with it.</span>

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<b>So Beware!</b>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Do your homework and research the people you are following online, investigate their backgrounds their intent, they experience, their success - if they have any? - their purpose. Ask them for evidence of their claims or accolades and make your decision to take advice an informed one!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, let’s flip this on its head and consider an alternative view….</span>

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<h2><b>For Those Too Scared To Post Because Of The Trolls </b></h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">I know a lot of you are growing your personal training businesses, yoga and pilates business, sports therapy businesses and more. And when you want to grow your business it means putting yourself out there. I know some people don't post at all, for fear of what others will think or say. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">To those in fear of posting because a troll might slate you or your work just remember...</span>

I understand that fear! Putting yourself out there can be terrifying!

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Always remember, <strong>hurt people tend to hurt others!</strong></span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">It will happen, people will leave stupid comments, but hey let it go, do not bite instead rise above them, ignore or block, delete or use them to learn what not to do!</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">I am afraid it is what social media does to those who post. We will be judged when we put content out so we must accept this or not use social media!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Stay focused on those messages telling you how much you’re helping someone.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ignore that 1 troll and enjoy the hundreds of messages thanks!</span>

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<h2><b>A Message To The Trolls/Keyboard Warriors…</b></h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">...if putting someone down makes you feel big and important then you have serious issues! </span>

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<h3>Let's Do Good In This World!</h3>
Anyway, my hope is that you put yourself out there, spread your message and help as many people as you can!

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