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Lessons on Communication and Understanding
Take one episode at a time,give it one weeks strict attention,and leave everything else to its ordinary chance. A Prologue Episode One:Boats float for a reason. If you can figure out the reason, you can float too.The Power of Cause and Effect Episode Two:You see dangerous rapids ahead, while I see an exciting ride.We all … Read more
The Power of Persuasion and Influence: A Whackadoodle lesson about rapport, and why so many people seem to prefer name calling and pointing fingers to following the second rule of persuasion. If you have entered this story in the middle, click here for the table of contents. ________ I’d been think about how to approach our … Read more
The Power of Communication and Understanding: A Whackadoodle review of the listening-to-understand process, as well as a few new tools that can help you deal with gaslighting, deception, deflection, and more. If you have entered this story in the middle, click here for the table of contents. ________ My student brought a care package with her … Read more
The Power of Definition and Belief. In which my Whackadoodle student and I begin the second of fourteen lessons for navigating life, and rediscover how important it is to keep examining our definitions. If you have entered this story in the middle, click here for the table of contents. ______ “So I have been thinking about … Read more
A Whackadoodle discussion on what happened when my early morning telemarketer called me back, and I offered to send him a link to the article he’d inspired. If you haven’t read it already, you should probably click here to read Part One before you read Part Two. An nearly true story by Lynn Marie Sager … Read more
A Whackadoodle discussion in which my student and I examine both the connotative and the denotative meanings of the word Whackadoodle, in order to answer the question, “What does Whackadoodle mean? by Lynn Marie Sager “I think that I would have liked your brother,” she told me shyly. We had just finished reading a lesson … Read more
In which my student and I discuss how not teaching civics has failed her, while learning about ranked choice voting, filibusters, and more.
A Whackadoodle story about trust and lies in four parts: by Lynn Marie Sager Part One: In which my student believes that dismissing lies is a viable solution. I had been hired to tutor her online at the beginning of the pandemic. Was it really over two years ago? So much had changed, and yet … Read more