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The Little Red Coaching Psychology Manual: It’s About How You Say It

December 9, 2011 By Colette Seymann Leave a Comment

If there was such a thing as the Little Red Coaching Psychology Manual, the first chapter would start off with, “It’s not what you say, but how you say it.” Here are some tips that should be in the even the most concise coaching psychology manual.

3 Tips To Connecting Through Language

  1. “You” is usually the best way to address someone. “We” can sound placating and condescending. Didn’t you hate it when teachers said something like, “Class. We better line up quickly and quietly if we don’t want to miss recess.” This type of language makes me want to throw the psychology coaching manual at them.
  2. Come from a place of serving others’ needs. If you are getting your needs met through coaching someone, you will be less effective. If you need someone as a client to pay the bills or if you’re getting your needs met for connection you will sell yourself out to get what you need instead of being able to risk it all to serve your clients.
  3. Mirror the other person as much as possible though voice tonality, tempo, and word choice. These are the keys to connecting. If you coach face to face, you can also easily mirror non-verbal cues.

What Does The Coaching Psychology Manual Say About Confronting Someone?

If you need to confront someone you have two choices. If you are chastising or attacking someone, using the word “you” is the most ‘in your face’ option, according to our coaching psychology manual. Use it for impact.

Using “we” is a bit softer, but can also be very effective when you feel a direct confrontation would result in building a wall. Using “we” creates more rapport and helps people face areas of their life where they already experience shame. Make sure you consider the psychology behind you are trying to do when you use scripts and other coaching tools so you make sure you get the results you want.

Give this strategy a try and see for yourself that it works. If you liked this coaching tip, leave a comment or use the handy bookmark buttons below to share it with others on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc. Thanks!

Colette Seymann
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Breaking the Cycle, Key to Stress Coaching Success

November 29, 2011 By Dave Iuppa 1 Comment

There is a great scene in the movie The Last Samurai that has a strong lesson for stress coaching. In this scene, a young Japanese archer tells the Western hero, Nathan Algren, that the reason he cannot beat the samurai in sword fighting is that “he has too many minds.” One mind is wheeling the sword. One mind is aware of the mind wheeling the sword. And one and many more minds each being aware of those minds being aware.

There are few situations more threatening than being at the wrong end of a samurai’s sword. Yet modern day stress can be just as deadly. And there are few handicaps, in either fight, greater than being burdened by the weight of “too many minds.”

Dealing with the Gordian Knot

Stress coaches might think that they can unravel the knot of conscious thoughts that trip-up most victims of stress. But to be effective, stress coaching must cut through that knot which binds the mind of its victims, just as Alexander chose to untie the Gordian knot with his sword.

Stress Coaching by Breaking an Egg or Two

In a similar tale, Christopher Columbus, when challenged to balance a hardboiled egg on its end, set the egg down with just enough force to crack the shell and thus balance the egg smartly on its end. By understanding that breakthroughs often require breaking with the past, stress coaching usually requires helping the client to set aside the many, but often minor, irritants that add up to envelop them. Whether by cutting the knot or breaking the egg, the stress coach must avoid becoming embroiled in the issues that add up to create the crushing burden of stress for their client.

Stress Coaching Can Take a Cue from Zen “Shock Therapy”

Zen Buddhism is a Japanese sect of Buddhism, which practices the art of spontaneous enlightenment. Reasoning that, by definition, a quantum leap cannot be made in incremental steps, enlightenment is always achieved in flash of insight. While other forms of Buddhism seek to achieve this flash of insight through patient meditation, in Zen, the student is “tricked” into enlightenment by the master when presented a puzzle with no rational solution. When the mind is occupied with this imponderable, the flash of enlightenment can come through. The question “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” is a classic example of such a puzzle.

In stress coaching, the coach can help free their client by posing a question that by-passes their conscious mind, giving them direct access to their subconscious mind.

Give this strategy a try and see for yourself that it works. If you liked this coaching tip, leave a comment or use the handy bookmark buttons below to share it with others on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc. Thanks!

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Sports Psychology and Coaching: Lessons From a Youth Sports Coach

November 21, 2011 By Fred Phillips 2 Comments

Working with athletes to improve their game requires the best sports psychology and coaching skills you have. It also requires lessons from a youth sports coach.

You’ve seen the youth coach – the dad who lugs around the bag of equipment to every
practice. Yes, those dads, the ones without fancy certifications, extensive knowledge, or years of training. They are not sports psychologists and coaching experts, but they have a few lessons to teach you.

These coaches are mere volunteers, but they have often gained experience coaching at the hardest levels. Sports psychology and coaching experts would be wise to learn from the lowly youth coach. Ever coach a group of eight-year old girls? Or twelve-year old boys? If you have, you wouldn’t be dismissing the ability of these coaches.

You would be placing them on a pedestal and admiring them for their patience, perseverance, and prowess.

What Can Youth Sports Coaches Teach Sports Psychology and Coaching Experts?

* Respect

* Discipline

* Fun

The 3 Lessons You Can Learn From a Youth Sports Coach

When you coach a bunch of kids, it’s all about respect. As a coach, you have to respect
the kids, many of whom are not in any way, shape, or form, athletes. But, they show up
at practice every time, they work hard, and they try to listen to your every word. That
demands respect. You must also get them to respect you. There is no set of instructions
that a coach can follow to get adolescent kids to respect you, but the first step is to give
them respect.

There’s your first lesson from a youth sports coach – everyone needs to be treated with
respect, from the nine-year old Little Leaguer who put his pants on backwards (yes – I
coached that kid) to the elite athlete. Give respect to get it!

When you coach a team of 10-year old boys, you cannot expect to discipline by yelling
obscenities at them and making them run wind sprints until they faint, as if you were
coaching an NFL team. You must instill discipline through various methods learned
through trial and error. What you learn as a youth coach is that each kid responds
differently to your disciplinary measures.

This is a lesson you can put to use in your sports psychology and coaching practice.
Treat your clients as individuals and instill discipline through creativity, inspiration, and motivation.  And, unlike with the kids, an occasional four letter word is allowed!

If you can stand the little girl crying in her mom’s arms because she doesn’t want to play
soccer, the boy who constantly wants to fight his teammates, or the parent who wants to
know why little Johnny doesn’t play shortstop more often, coaching young athletes is
fun. And it should definitely be fun for the kids.

Practice for a team of eight-year old girls has to be fun or no one is coming back to play
next year. In your sports psychology and coaching practice, fun will keep your clients
coming back for more. Of course, elite athletes are looking for training, discipline,
expertise, and some psychology to help them achieve, but fun is still a motivating factor.
Play an enjoyable game, design a creative role play scenario, crack a few jokes; whatever
gets your clients motivated, laughing, and referring you to others.

Your final lesson from a youth sports coach – mix in a little humor with your expertise
and knowledge. By learning lessons from someone who has coached every type of kid,
sports psychology and coaching experts can use this newly acquired knowledge to help
their elite athletes achieve their dreams.

Hope you took some great value out of this post today! I’d love to hear your feedback, so make sure you leave a comment with your thoughts or questions. And also, you can click on the Twitter button below to retweet this article… Thank you!

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How Does Personality Coaching work? I am Who I am! Right?

November 12, 2011 By Jeannine Yoder Leave a Comment

Does Personality Coaching work? Personality Coaching, huh? I don’t know, are you who you say you are? Who’s on first? If “I am” is on third and “you” are on second, then where am “I”? Before we decide if you simply are who you and how a personality coach works, let us explore what personality is.

Who, What, When, Where and Why Personality?

The who, is YOU. Personality is defined as the visible aspect of your character as it impresses others. Your personality is an embodiment of a collection of your unique qualities. It begins at birth, the second you open your eyes. It is the sum total of the physical, mental, emotional, and social characteristics of you as an individual. Your personality is a reflection of your unique response to the world around you. Your personality is the quality of being a person.

Ask yourself:

  1. What destiny will you create as a result of who you are?
  2. What is your personal belief about the world?
  3. How do you choose to react and communicate?

These questions are the answers to some of your key personality traits.

Your personality is

  • Your motives
  • Personal Style
  • Way of responding,
  • Way of learning
  • Way of communicating

Most crucially…

  • Your behavior

Personality Coaching And How it Works

Most life coaches will focus on Identity, personal beliefs and global beliefs in coaching sessions. This kind of coaching allows clients to crush blocks that were holding them back from achieving growth, happiness and success. Some coaches become experts and focus only on identity and personality coaching.

Personality coaching is a relationship between client and coach that allows an insightful and observational approach to the clients personality. This partnership will help the client and coach to discover deeply fixed, consistent, distinctive and characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors.

A personality coach helps a client to discover

  • Personality style of interaction with physical and social environment
  • Where this style began
  • How it effects decisions
  • How personality relates to quality of life
  • Personal and professional relationship communication
  • Actions you take as a result of your personality
  • How personality based actions create your destiny
  • How to strengthen weakness in your personality
  • How to utilize and shifts aspects of your personality to find your power

As a coach you will want to work with your client to help them understand the definition of personality. By incorporating personality coaching into your sessions you empower your client to access a deeper understanding of their possibilities and where they might be most effective.

Our personality is always changing and growing. Personality Coaching is the key to staying on top of these changes and eliminating broken patterns to create a powerful, limitless experience. Our personalities should be a unique part of us that shape the design of our lives.

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Should Focus be the Focus of Sports Psychology and Coaching?

October 2, 2011 By Fred Phillips Leave a Comment

Sports psychology and coaching involves teaching athletes to achieve greatness. Achievement on the Little League field means something different than it does on a Sunday in an NFL stadium packed with 60,000 screaming fans. However, venue and age do not matter when you are considering the most important quality for success.

What is the Secret to Success in Sports Psychology and Coaching?

It doesn’t take a degree in psychology to know that an athlete must have talent, but there are many who have been blessed with talent. The truly successful athlete must be focused. Yes, FOCUS is the one quality that athletes must possess if they are going to improve and reach the highest levels in sports. Without focus, an athlete is merely the sum of his or her god-given talent. Without focus, an athlete cannot rise above their talent and push themselves to a new level. Sports psychologists and coaches who teach methods to bring an athlete’s focus to a new level have WINNING clients… and have a WINNING sports psychology and coaching business!

Why the Focus Should be on Focus?

Rogers Clemens once said, “When I’m on the mound, I’m so locked in I don’t even see the dugout. It’s just me and the glove.” That’s the level of focus athletes need to reach the pinnacle of their sport. Focus is often the deciding factor in competition.

Do you think Tiger Woods was that much better at the physical game of golf than everyone else? It was his extraordinary level of focus that vaulted his game to a whole new level. Perhaps that explains why he isn’t anywhere near the same golfer after his “women troubles” and acrimonious divorce.

For an athlete to reach their potential in a given sport, focus needs to be nurtured and developed. How can you hit a baseball, whether it be from a Little League pitcher or from a professional throwing 100 MPH, unless you focus? Tiger Woods had it, Roger Clemens had it, and you must teach it in your sports psychology and coaching business; focus on FOCUS!

Top 5 Tips That Develop Focus

F – Free your mind. The ability to be free of distractions allows athletes to concentrate on the task at hand. Sports psychology and coaching experts can teach mind relaxation techniques that free the mind of all extraneous thoughts.

O – Organize you thoughts as quickly as possible in the game. Isaiah Thomas spoke about Michael Jordan‘s ability to quickly organize and process the game of basketball. “As fast as the game moves, his mind moves faster. He is able to analyze the game frame by frame, as if the play unfolds in slow motion.”

C – Concentration. Concentration exercises used continually as part of your training, help develop a laser-like focus.

U – Understand who you are as an athlete and do that to the best of your ability. John Wooden, the late, great UCLA basketball coach once said, “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

S – Strength. This does not mean how much you can bench press or how far you can hit a ball; this refers to mental strength and toughness. How well does an athlete overcome adversity? Can an athlete put their most recent loss or mistake behind them? Mental strength is all about focusing on the next play or task.

As a sports psychology and coaching professional, you can use these five keys in your coaching business to develop drills and exercises that allow an athlete to fully develop their focusing abilities. When you have given your athletes the gift of focus, you have truly helped them realize their potential

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Priceless Behavior Coaching Changes Lives Forever

September 12, 2011 By Donald Hunter 1 Comment

Behavior coaching is priceless because you’ll never be left wondering how your sometimes haphazard behavior impacts the way people treat you, greet you, and what causes them to stick around or leave you hanging after you spend time coaching with a behavior coach. The first step of any come to Jesus moment is to confess you have a problem.

If you want priceless relationships that lift your spirits and incredible ones that take you places that you’ve never been, then you need a behavior coach who can train you to communicate masterfully with your old and new relationships.

Behavior coaching is simply communication coaching. You telegraph your thoughts, feelings, and emotions to others through your facial expressions, the way you stand, and your style of speaking.

Who have you offended or pissed off lately? Have you recently lost an important sale or client account?

When you can create a new relationship that grows and prospers today with all the challenges that so many of your family, friends, and new acquaintances are facing, it’s a blessing if you can train yourself to always come from a place of love and open-mindedness when speaking with them.

4 Priceless Ways Behavior Coaching Will Help You Become a Progressive Communicator

My coaching goal here is to give you 4 simple interaction tools you can rely on to rise above misunderstandings in your relationships. These 4 tools are powerful and they will permanently change your perceptions of people in your life.

If you familiarize yourself with the communication styles preferred by other people, you’ll quickly become an effective communicator with them. Now you will have to practice being flexible in changing up your communication style with others who may have a different behavioral style from you.

Your willingness to be flexible and your drive to interpret the communication needs of others is the reason why you’ll easily attract people who lift your spirits and take you places you’ve never even imagined.

With these 4 behavior coaching techniques, you will be able to positively change the perceptions of the people you want to influence to your point of view, give them love and receive love from them, and you’ll be confident you can depend on them to support you.

The 4 Keys to Priceless Behavior Change

One:

When you’re speaking to a person who is needy, tidy, old-school, obsessive, careful and plays by the rules:

Behavior coaching recommends that you know what you will say in advance. Stick to what they want to talk about and be ready to back up your statements with hard facts. Be accurate and realistic and never exaggerate.

You should never Be scatter brained, careless, relaxed, and loud because that’ll surely turn them off.

What will for sure tick them off is you wasting their time with your small talk, and being disorganized or messy.

Two:

When speaking to a person who is go-getting, influential, determined, strong-willed, autonomous, and goal-oriented you’ll need to be clear, exact, concise, and get to the point fast.

Behavior coaching suggests that you stick to what interests them. Give them your best insights about the subjects which benefit them. Be ready with sources you can refer to like books you’ve read and famous people you’ve studied, and then share with them your thoughts and beliefs in a logical fashion.

Now how you will for sure quickly turn off these men and women is by Talking about things that are not important to the topic they’re most interested in talking about at the moment.

They’ll always hate when you dodge the issue by not taking a firm stand, or taking a confusing position, or act as if you’re higgledy-piggledy.

Three:

When speaking to a person who is tolerant, obvious, trustworthy, stable, calm, and humble you should start with a personal comment that’ll break the ice. Take a soft approach, be nonthreatening and be logical.

Behavior coaching advises that you earn their trust and share with them proven advice and ideas.

You can piss this group of men and women off by rushing headlong into a deep discussion or by being bossy or challenging. One of the worst things you should avoid is forcing them to respond quickly to your questions.

Four:

When speaking to a person who is attractive, energetic, friendly, expressive, and opinionated you should offer them a warm, friendly environment. Don’t bore them with a lot of details, unless they ask for the information.

The best behavior coaching advice you need to know is to share examples from people they see as having value.

You should never offend them by being rude, cold or tight-lipped.

The other no-no is you controlling the conversation and pushing facts and figures, too many alternatives, and big ideas.

These 4 behavior coaching tools will be invaluable for you right away if you seriously apply all 4 coaching tools in your business and professional relationships.

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Sports Psychology and Coaching: How To Be A Winner

September 11, 2011 By Colette Seymann 2 Comments

My first introduction to sports psychology and coaching was back in high school. I ran track and cross country, earning the coveted “Most Improved” award. It wasn’t that I was such an impressive runner, but after crossing the finish line in my first race just as they were taking down the finish chute anything was an improvement. Maybe it was because I just didn’t quit. We moved schools after my first year, and with it came a new coach. He was definitely ahead of his time as far of his knowledge of sports psychology and distance coaching went; even though I’m sure he never made anything near a six-figure income as a high school coach. His coaching took me from a mediocre high school distance runner to a UCLA athlete.

Only Losers Say That Winning Isn’t Everything

If you’ve never watched the Olympics you know. The quest for winning the gold takes priority over every aspect of these athletes’ lives. At the moment they win their lives are forever changed; especially in the high profile events. There are some athletes who say that they just came to compete; that alone was a dream come true. Others, however, are not satisfied and are willing to sacrifice another 4 years for the chance to win. Still others justify their position after they lose with all types of reasons why it wasn’t that important to them. They quit. There is a definitive difference in the sports psychology and coaching mentality behind these groups.

The Truth Behind Sports Psychology and Coaching

If you have a plan B, you’re not really committed to your plan A. In business, in sports, in relationships. Think about marriage vows, “Until death do us part.” Most people in our society can’t keep their focus long enough to really win. They give up early when things become uncomfortable. Winners don’t quit period. Mary Lou Retton scored a perfect 10 on the vault to win in the 1984 Olympics with a bad knee, when everyone else expected her to quit. There is no secret to success in sports psychology and coaching except to dig deep and give everything you have.

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Sequel to Take The $##!! Out of Life With Stress Coaching

August 26, 2011 By Dana Bosley 4 Comments

The human body is an amazing machine. We’re actually made to renew ourselves, mentally, physically and spiritually on a regular basis. If we neglect the renewal part for too long, then stress can become destructive instead of helpful causing your energy to be drained and we’re not as successful as we could be.

Below are some stress coaching tips that you can use with your clients or even use on yourself. When using these stress coaching tips it should plug up your energy drainers and once this happens you can expect greater success, improved relationships and better health.

14 Top Tips For Renewal From Stress Coaching

1. Have a good belly laugh
Studies have shown that laughter is a great stress reliever. Read some jokes or watch a short funny video on YouTube.

2. Taking a hot bath/shower
The warm water actually relaxes the muscles and relieves tension.

3. Away from thinking
Spend some time doing or thinking about something totally unrelated to anything.

4. Set your priorities
Write down your to-do list in order of priority. Then go through each task, duty and obligation and ask yourself, “Is this really a priority for me or someone else’s expectation?”

5. De-clutter
People seldom realize what an energy drainer and stress causer clutter is. Get your surroundings in order.

6. Listen to uplifting music
Music is a great mood trigger. So be sure to play something you associate with good memories or that is upbeat, motivating and inspiring.

7. Detoxification
Cut down on caffeine and sugar or go a step further and do a genuine detoxification program. It will improve your energy level and overall well-being.

8. Sleep more
Research has shown that most people need more sleep and that sleep can reduce stress as it gives our body time to renew itself. Even a nap can help if you have the luxury of being able to do so.

9. Write it down
The more fully and frequently you download what’s on your mind, new ideas, undone tasks, to-do’s, concerns, the less energy you’ll squander in fruitlessly thinking about it over and over.

10. Deep breathing
Take slow deep breaths, breathing in to your stomach, not your chest. This calms the body.

11. Get physical
Exercise more. Schedule in some vigorous exercise into your week, but also just get up and move around during your daily routine.

12. Nature
Nature is a potent stress reducer. The sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure. Spend mort time out side and/or get a small water fountain for your work space.

13. Show gratitude
Having a happy heart is good medicine and one of the best ways to achieve it is by giving thanks. Make it part of your daily ritual to say five things you’re thankful for as well as appreciating others.

14. Meditate or pray
Sit down and try to clear your mind of thoughts, detach yourself from the hectic pace of the day, get alone and get quiet, put all other thoughts aside and listen to your heart.

The above basic stress coaching tips, can help relieve some stress. But if you or your clients are still struggling with major stress and it is not one of your coaching expertise there are more in-depth techniques that can be used. Contact or study the writings of a stress coach for more detailed instruction.

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Take the #&$*#! out of your life With Stress Coaching

August 11, 2011 By Dana Bosley 4 Comments

Stress coaching is a must for all of us.

Stress, anxiety, worry or a sense of being overwhelmed can all be affecting your attitude and productivity without you even knowing it. Because of this, it is a good plan to identify the source of your stress so that you can do something about it, and one of the best ways you can do this is through stress coaching. There is no shame in that as we all suffer from stress from time to time, even you, my fellow coaches. You’d be surprised how much stress can build up in your life with just little things and how much more success you can have by eliminating the stress in your life.

There are many different causes of stress related to diverse situations or events and how a person deals with or responds to each situation. The causes and signs of stress can therefore differ from one person to the next and may be manifest in a multitude of different ways. To avoid break down, it is better to eliminate the energy drainers now rather than later–thus enters the stress coaches stage right.

Being a stress coach myself…

I’ve found there are many different causes of stress. The source of stress can differ from one person to the next and may be caused by such things as:

Petty annoyances. (The things you are putting up with, such as poor lighting, tight shoes, your dented car, broken appliances, etc.)

Clutter.

Wanting to be in control.

Not living in congruity with your values.

Not setting boundaries.

Being in bondage to money instead of having financial freedom.

Low self-esteem and fear of inadequacy.

Health energy drainers (caffeine, sugar, etc.)

Not being able to say no.

Not asking for what you really want.

Feeling like you have to do all those ‘shoulds’.

Not being able to establish boundaries.

Not having a positive attitude.

Not having something to look forward to.

Putting limitations on yourself.

Not being surrounded by the right people.

No time for reflection and renewal.

Not building powerful relationships.

Not forgiving.

Wrong perspectives.

Why you need stress coaching.

This is just a short list of reasons that could be causing you stress, but with the help of a stress coach you could turn all these negative energy drainers around. I could also give you a long list of things you could do to reduce stress, but there are already plenty of these types of articles out there that you are most likely aware of. However, if you are not using various known stress busting methods, then this is a good reason why you should consider stress coaching which can help you actually take action on some of these things.

As you can see, stress coaching is a big subject and one that I’ve only touched the surface of. The best thing to do is find a good coach for yourself, start plugging up your energy drainers and to use your new found energy to greater success.

Wishing you all the best with a stress free life.

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Psychology in Coaching: Why Partying Is Crucial For Success

August 2, 2011 By Colette Seymann 2 Comments

why partying is crucial - psychology in coaching ©www.whyriskit.caMy experience with psychology in coaching is a lot different than the good ol’ days of college. Back then the psychology was all about delayed gratification. Don’t party, study. And then study some more for the entire semester. Who can hold that type of schedule without losing motivation? Now I know what was missing from orientation week.

The Psychology In Coaching For Fulfillment And Motivation

Celebrating victories is essential in the psychology of coaching for success. The two main ingredients to success are motivation and fulfillment. What is motivation? According to models of psychology in coaching, we are motivated to move away from pain and toward pleasure. Fulfillment, on the other hand, is a matter of feeling good. People who feel fulfilled most of the time are more likely to feel successful than those who don’t.

How To Party Like It’s 1999

In Prince’s hit song, “Tonight we’re going to party like it’s 1999”, he wasn’t going to wait for a major event to celebrate. Taking time on a regular basis to celebrate wins is crucial, yet too few achievers seem to stop and acknowledge their successes along the way to their goals. Over time this can lead to burn out because there isn’t any payoff for all the long and painful hours. Celebrating can be as simple as giving yourself 10 pats on the back as extravagant as going on a safari in Africa. The key is to catch yourself, and your clients, winning. Then find a meaningful reward and take a moment to reflect on why this is worth celebrating, what this success means now and in the future, and who they have become.

Even if your clients don’t understand psychology in coaching, they key is to get them to celebrate and reward themselves. Everyone understands that rewards work for children and people with any compassion would agree that it would be damaging to fail to ever reward children for their success. Why let them do it to themselves?

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