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Are you one of those who won’t do anything unless you are sure it will pay off? won’t do anything unless you are sure it’s the right thing?
Do you know The old phrase: ‘Give your little finger to other people and they take the whole hand.’?
Well, it is only true if and when the person in case wants your hand…
I have tested it with my cat. I gave her a little… and unless she liked it, ate it, I didn’t give her more… She didn’t want the little finger, she didn’t want the hand.
I also test students. I give them a little finger… and often they don’t see how that will be good for them, take them to where they have always wanted to go… and do like my cat… walk away from it.
And this happens with some regularity with some people in my classes. Unless they can see the ‘whole hand’, they don’t want the little finger either.
Two of my students in particular… Continue reading “The invisible and sinister undertow that pulls you under”