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Friday, October 19, 2001 in the gym the departmentalized program meet to talk to a motivational speaker named Fran Kick.  He started by drawing a giant 4x4 square then asking “how many squares do you see.”  Most said sixteen.  Others said seventeen, and a few said thirty squares.  Amazed by the different answers, most then wondered how others got their answers Fran explained.  Some people only saw the sixteen squares, others saw the sixteen and the square that made up the sixteen squares thus making seventeen.  Then the few how said thirty saw the seventeen and took the sixteen squares and added groups of them and got their thirty.  He told us that the few who got the thirty because they put their mind to it and saw more.  He told us that to get some thing you want, you just have to put your mind to it.  Then sometimes you will do things you don’t think your going to get something out of it but you will, you just don’t know it.  After that he had us play a game.  The whole group had to make numbers and letters using the people we had.  There was one rule NO TALKING.  It was a challenge but we managed.  The most active was mainly Chester B. and Ryan C..  Throughout the game we had to make an [a]; we did make an [a] but it was a capital [A].  Then we had to make a [q].  Again, we did but it was a capital [Q].  Then we did numbers, and first was a 23.  It came out as an E3, then E2, and finally we got a 23.  After that we were done.  After every object Fran asked how can you make this better and then we made it better.  He explained that if we all had our mind put to it we could make it as good the first time.  That with the right motivation we can do anything.  He told us that there was a cycle to work.  He told us that we were having fun making letters and numbers and that making the letters and numbers was work and that it was good work.  Fran said that if you’re having fun doing something you won’t know it is work.  Plus if you did not know it was work you would end up doing a good job at it.  After talking a little bit more he thanked us and we went on with our Falk School lives.  

Bryant

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