I totally forgot when we were talking on the phone about it earlier how all this persistence stuff can play into disability stuff, but duh, it obviously does.
I think the marble thing, or other similar exercises, are so problematic in part because they don't afford much flexibility or creativity. I think team-building exercises might be less annoying if the problems presented didn't have one and only one solution.
Teaching people to marry persistence with creative solution-seeking is much better, I think. Again, I come back to RPGs as a better approach. Also, certain types of math problems (though not all).
>Take this sort persistence orientation even farther, and you start to see how it could lead to really destructive thought patterns.
Indeed -- it's a fine line from "you can do anything you want, if you just work hard enough" to "if you don't have everything you want, it's because you're not working hard enough". Hard work is important and necessary, but not always (always not?) sufficient.
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I think the marble thing, or other similar exercises, are so problematic in part because they don't afford much flexibility or creativity. I think team-building exercises might be less annoying if the problems presented didn't have one and only one solution.
Teaching people to marry persistence with creative solution-seeking is much better, I think. Again, I come back to RPGs as a better approach. Also, certain types of math problems (though not all).
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WHY???????????
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Yes.
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Indeed -- it's a fine line from "you can do anything you want, if you just work hard enough" to "if you don't have everything you want, it's because you're not working hard enough". Hard work is important and necessary, but not always (always not?) sufficient.
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No kidding! I think "warped" is exactly the right term.
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