Sublime

Keep children active, curious, engaged, and autonomous. Passive students do not learn much. Make them more active. Engage their intelligence so that their minds sparkle with curiosity and constantly generate new hypotheses. But do not expect them to discover everything on their own: guide them through a structured curriculum.

My responsibility to the people I mentor is to add value. My goal is always to help them to become more than they are, not to try to make them something they’re not. These are the areas I focus on: • Strengths • Temperament • Track record • Passion • Choices • Advice • Support, Resources/People • Game plan • Feedback • Encouragement

Feeling like a cog in a machine suggests a lack of freedom to create your own areas of competence.

The Little Kid

Berne labeled networks that develop early in life as Child ego states. When we activate one of these, we act like the child we once were. Networks which represent the internalization of the people who raised us, as we experienced them, Berne named Parent. When in Parent we think, feel, and act like one of our parents or like someone who took their

No One Is an Island

age five showed the most reliable indicators of true giftedness in a young person: structured curiosity, empathy for others, compassion, and a fierce sense of fair play.

The central focus of this Second Wave of behaviorism was to correct the failure to account for the role our thoughts play in governing our behavior.