My last post on teaching reminded me of this favorite from Sharon Salzberg’s The Force of Kindness: “’People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities….Ability is not a fixed property…there is huge variability in it; people who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failures; they approach things in terms ofContinue reading “Reading: Self-efficacy”
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Reading: Re-starting without Residue
“Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don’t give up after a mistake, when something doesn’t come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we’re not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.” – Sharon Salzberg “If we fall, we don’tContinue reading “Reading: Re-starting without Residue”