CHAPTER 12

Using R.E.A.D.

I keep yanking you back and forth between childlike observing and adult-brain thinking because you need to be agile in transitioning from one to the other in R.E.A.D. “R” requires wide-eyed, toddler curiosity, but you cannot accomplish “E, A, and D” without sophisticated mental processes and rich, human experience.

Right now, go back to the kid.

First, question everything I have said here. Always question experts. You are sitting in the best laboratory in the world—real life. No lab experiment paying people to participate in stress-causing exercises is going to produce the kind of stress a good butt-chewing from an employer will. No experiment about lying in which the consequence is a psychologist finding out can compare ...

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