[U]nderlying each connection are the core beliefs that the parties about to communicate hold about each other. These colour the whole relationship. If you think a person is incompetent then no matter how much you try to mask that belief it percolates as a subtle energy through the relationship, informing the feeling and nature of [...]
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Un-making a connection
Posted in Communication, Quotation on July 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Explaining is hard
Posted in Communication on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A formative and humbling experience of my life was spending 10 weeks as an undergraduate teaching assistant in a math class for at-risk college freshmen. These freshmen had gotten good grades in their high school math classes, but had scored poorly on the math section of the SAT. They were considered “at risk” because it [...]
