From: "Chuck Holst" <cholst_at_bitstream.net> > panic. Recently, my wife and I took one of the doctors in her department > out in a kayak for the first time. [...] He actually did much better > without preliminary instruction than I have seen many people do in class. I read an article years ago on windsurfing and the instructor being interviewed said that doctors make the best students. They are trained to do what they are told, exactly the way they are told every time they do it. If they're in the mood to be students, they listen intently and can repeat what you instruct very well the first time. He also said that engineers make the worst students. First you have to explain what you want them to do, then explain _why_ you want them to do it that way and then they spend time trying to improve on the method. Mike *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Oct 07 2000 - 13:55:19 PDT
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