What you think of yourself, and what you think of the people in your class, shapes every lesson before you say a word. In this episode, Kevin Jones and Julie Hillyard walk through a four-quadrant model from Neil Pasricha’s The Happiness Equation and apply it to gospel teaching. Low opinion of yourself and others? Cynical. High opinion of yourself, low of others? Arrogant. High opinion of others, low of yourself? Self-deprecating. High opinion of both? Confident and humble. They talk honestly about the quadrants they’ve taught from, why so many teachers are quietly lowering expectations after the move to 25-minute classes, and why true confidence has nothing to prove.
