The Tao of Mister Rogers

The Tao of Mister Rogers

Mister Rogers is my new hero.

**FILE**  Fred Rogers rehearses the opening of his PBS show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" during a taping in this June 28, 1989 file photo, in Pittsburgh. The media company behind the PBS hit "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" is working on a new children's television series.  Kevin Morrison, chief operating officer of Family Communications Inc., told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette the company is in talks with producers of several children's TV shows about a new program. Production of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" ended in 2000, and Fred Rogers, the show's star, died in 2003, at age 74.           (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, FILE)

But I have to be honest: I don’t really know who he is.

His TV show wasn’t shown in my country. I have no idea what it was like. And I’m not interested in finding out.

But I stumbled across a video of him that totally astonished me.

In the video below, Mister Rogers is addressing a senate subcommittee. These people are going to decide whether to fund his TV show. It’s not going well.

But then Mister Rogers does something wonderful.

He does not argue.
He doesn’t dominate or manipulate.
He doesn’t panic.

Instead, he speaks to his adversaries with total respect and acceptance.
He is fully grounded in himself.
He affords the risk of opening up and being vulnerable, since he knows he can take it.

That’s real power.

In this video, Mister Rogers comes up against a mean hardass. But he doesn’t get flustered. Mister Rogers responds by giving him a much-needed lesson in the healthy way to manage negative emotional states. It’s a lesson this senator should have learned in childhood, and desperately needs.

By showing this man that it’s okay to feel and express his rage, something he probably never heard before, Mister Rogers wins the funding.

What a fucking hero.

Take a look:

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