Brendan Mahan

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611 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2020 last heard Sep 2020

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And I mentioned this to teachers specifically because so many teachers do projects and they break it down into small tasks.

So that it's more manageable.

But almost none of them are thinking that another benefit to that process is that you're making it so that some piece of that book report

I don't know, diorama on ancient Mesopotamia.

You want some piece of that project to land inside the tick the kids' time horizon.

So if there's something due every day, there's always something in their time horizon and they're always working toward that goal.

As opposed to if it's not due till the end of the week and now they're not doing it until Thursday 'cause it's due tomorrow.

Uh-huh.

But it's real.

Yeah, so it started because I was trying to I was trying to explain to parents why their kids didn't do homework.

Or why they had trouble doing homework, I should say.

And then

As it progressed, I realized it was bigger than what I was talking about.

And that it was really a trauma model, 'cause in a lot of ways it is.

And so here's how it works.

Every time we fail.

We get a brick in our wall, right?

So let's stick with homework 'cause that's the origin.

My kid didn't do their math homework.

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