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H. Bernard Wechsler
Tell me the worst and I can handle the pain better, is scientific research not bravado. Who follows it?

H.Bernard Wechsler
Uh, I was home sick with the flu when they taught the rules of grammar.
Been successfully avoiding it ever since

H. Bernard Wechsler
Did your 3rd grade teacher ever call you out as a DayDreamer? Would you be insulted if today, one of your peers, supervisor or partner accused you of daydreaming?

H. Bernard Wechsler
She had been teaching 5th grade in a Bronx, N.Y. school all her adult life. This September the principal asked her to teach a class of 8th graders, and both were hostile strangers to each other.

H. Bernard Wechsler
Your writer is a Contrarian and skeptical by legal training. When reading of human-like communicating chimpanzees, giggling was my reaction. It turned out to have merit.

Which produces successful experts, the coach (instructor) holding your hand and talking you through learning (golf, tennis, driving a car, and typing) or Ma, Let me do it myself?

H. Bernard Wechsler
Yeah, and folks can eliminate stress, tension and anxiety (the Big-three)
by deciding to use (Directed Mental Effort) and overlearning the correct strategies.

When you have to remember the name of the new client, boss or competitor, you force yourself to repeat it again and again ad nauseum.

H. Bernard Wechsler
Can you remember the first time you got on a two-wheel bike? Can you mentally visualize your parent holding you upright? Did he/she yell at you for not learning fast enough? Did you fall and scare hell out of yourself? And finally, did you succeed or fail in learning to ride your two-wheeler? You are still a great learner.


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