Once you tell your story, ask others to share their own stories with you. Poehler suggests that you should tell your birth story and tell it often. It can also be easy to forget where we come from, who we came from, and what we came from. It can be easy to forget our place in the world.
If you go in trying to defend what you did, or if you disregard the person’s feelings you are putting yourself above the other person and also invalidating their emotions. ‘Good’ apologies start by admitting that you were wrong, owning that you hurt the other person’s feelings, and not expecting anything in return after you apologise. As Poehler puts it:Īpologies have nothing to do with you. Even if you do everything right, it still mightn’t work because apologies don’t have to be accepted and they are definitely not clean slates. If you’re lucky, you’ll get one shot and you better not screw it up. Apologies have no guaranties or do-overs. Apologies require people to own their mistakes and own their past and this is hard to do because no one likes to be wrong.
It is one of the hardest things to do and it can be really easy to make an apology about yourself and not the person you are trying to say sorry to. So with that in mind, I thought it wouldn’t hurt to get some life lessons from a comedy great. Her writing is witty and sharp and she knows how to hit a point home. Poehler’s memoir is a mixed-medium book with plenty of pictures, poems, and writing to keep you entertained. Other than getting a good ab workout, comedy can teach you a lot about yourself and it can also give you some pretty amazing life advice and rules to stand by. Good comedy is about about punching up-challenging people and organisations in power. I have always felt that comedy is a great way to have hard conversations about what is going on in society and to also challenge social norms. Her career achievements are too long to add here, but let’s just be clear that she had made some of the funniest stuff on television. Most people know Amy Poehler as the hilarious comedy queen and beloved friend of Tina Fey. Amy is wearing a white t-shirt and black pants sitting in front of a pink neon sign that says “Yes Please”. Book cover of Amy Poehler’s memoir, Yes Please.
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