Assignments are individuals who may appear to have a genuinely deep admiration for you, but in actuality their love and admiration is for your gift and not for you as a person. In other words, an assignment may have sought you out because of something you have accomplished, and it’s the gift, talent, or skill that they’re actually enamored by. To ignore this reality is to be like an athlete who doesn’t realize that the same fans who will cheer when you play well will be the ones who will boo when you play poorly.
