Best Of Ellen Hendriksen's "How to Be Enough"
Here is a selection of memorable quotes from How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists by Ellen Hendriksen, Ph.D. The tactic of John Wooden of no praise is described below by Hendriksen reminds me a lot of the thoughts of the Philosopher's thoughts on praise in The Courage to Be Disliked : In the mid-1970s, teacher praise and reproof were hot topics in education research, so Gallimore and Tharp were surprised to discover Wooden seldom complimented or rebuked his players. Instead, as a former high school English teacher, Wooden did just that: He taught. He instructed. He informed. He told you what to do and how to do it: "Pass the ball to someone short!" "Don't walk." "Take lots of shots in areas where you might get them in games." "Pass from the chest!" His comments, wrote Gallimore and Tharp, were "short, punctuated, and numerous." Gallimore and Tharp noted that a highly successful contemporaneous ...
