Dr. William (Bill) Dodson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's not important to people's lives.
Think back to high school.
Who were the popular people in high school?
They weren't the smartest.
Often, they weren't the prettiest.
They weren't the most accomplished.
It was the kid who was confident.
He or she looked like they knew all the answers to life problems, which, of course, in high school, nobody feels that way.
But it's so attractive to find somebody.
It gives them hope.
Now, if you're around him, maybe he'll rub off on me.
Again, it's that self-possessed confidence.
So the flip side of being just totally knocked off your feet, helpless, not being able to even crawl out of it,
being thought of as childish, immature, deficit, fractured.
It's the exact opposite.
People avoid that.
I mean, why do third graders have no friends?
One reason, because of their emotional explosions.
Nobody, no other kid wants to be around that.
They can put up with the impulsivity, blurting things out, not being able to assist.