Amen! So I guess it's good that I always forget when this caller is calling to be sure I don't ask newcomers to dance during the early part of the evening...
M E > > This is a good example of how implicit messages can override explicit ones. > By assuming that all or most first-timers will insist on dancing with other > newcomers the caller is selecting a strategy that discourages the regulars > from putting out the effort to partner with newcomers. It becomes a > self-fulfilling prophesy. This is how bad choices become traditions. > > It is almost always better to address the core attitudes and beliefs than > to > attempt to "trick" the dancers into doing the right thing. > > - Greg McKenzie > > ************* > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > -- As you set out for Ithaka, pray that your journey be long, full of adventure, full of discovery... May there be many summer mornings when, with what pleasure, with what joy, you enter harbors you're seeing for the first time. ~Constantine Cavafy, "Ithaka" 1911
