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Tag Archives: learning
When You’re Busy Making Other Plans
Why is it that just when I decided I was going to be vigilant about sticking to my schedule, I had to delay eating breakfast to go buy milk for my mother-in-law’s breakfast? I had decided to stick to my … Continue reading
Posted in logotherapy
Tagged challenges, challenging questions, dialogue, flow, John Lennon, learning, planning, scheduling, self-discipline, unexpected surprises, values
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Motivation to Responsibility
After posting the questions about responsibility to Facebook and getting two replies in answer to the question and two replies about Facebook vs. blogging, I’ve come to the conclusion that: a) Facebook is a more accessible form of communication for … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, blogging, discussion, facebook, honesty, learning, participation, responsibility
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Sequel to the Accident
As it turns out, the accident was totally not my fault. The woman in the car in front of me called me today and I asked her what she remembers about the sequence of events. She said she’s absolutely sure … Continue reading
Master teachers
Contemplating about the Passover holiday has brought up thoughts of stuck-ness and redemption. The word for Egypt, the place where the emerging Jewish nation was stuck 3,300 years ago, is Mitzrayim from the word meitzar, a narrow place. As slaves … Continue reading
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Tagged constancy, learning, logotherapy, mastery, music, playfulness, teaching
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Freedom to learn
I’m revisiting a book I read a long time ago called Freedom to Learn by Carl Rogers. After a bit of browsing a few of his points and questions caught my attention. I’m not yet responding with my own thoughts … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Rogers, freedom, learning, therapy, trust, Viktor Frankl, will-to-meaning
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Believe in yourself: What does it really mean?
How do we see our mistakes and failures? People who are good at getting up again view and use their mistakes simply as tuition paid for learning. Take note how to do it better next time and move on. From … Continue reading
Posted in Healing process, logotherapy, Therapeutic skills
Tagged Divine-manifestation, failure, learning, self-confidence, self-esteem
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What kind of process?
“It’s being in the process that counts.” My willingness to nod in agreement to this statement depends very much on what the person means by this. My response the last time I heard it was, “Yes, but you need some … Continue reading
Posted in Healing process, logotherapy
Tagged beliefs, change, goals, learning, process
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Life is the curriculum
Yesterday I was told about a teacher in one of the toughest neighborhoods in America, rampant with gangs and violence who is slowly transforming the school into a peaceful environment. How is he doing that? Using religious Jewish principles he … Continue reading
Posted in Healing process, logotherapy, Social Issues
Tagged God, learning, logotherapy
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Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy 