Teaching is just like being a Realtor

Itshak Perlman is coming to San Diego this coming weekend. More importantly, he's bringing his violin with him, and even more important than that is that he's going to play his violin in a recital open to the public.

Perlman is one of my four favorite violints, the others being Joshua Bell, Yehudi Menuhin, and Isaac Stern. Tickets range from $30 to $300, and a certain someone in this household, who grew up playing the violin, was able to get us tickets to go see him play his violin.

Perlman is 64 now and spends a lot of time teaching and mentoring young students. I was reading the preview in the paper — and we don't usually get previews in the paper — and one thing that Perlman said about teaching struck home:

• Teaching is not just saying what you think, but how you say it. Do you say it with kindness? Do you give constructive criticism? How does the student feel at the end of the lesson.

It's pretty easy to transfer that to real estate:

• Being a Realtor is not just saing what you think, but how you say it. Do you say it with kindness? Do you give constructive criticism? How does the Client feel at the end of escrow?

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