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From: John Harrison
Date: 13 Oct 2006
Time: 13:51:11 -0500
Remote Name: 71.135.137.179
Winton.....YOU SAY...From memory, you made the point that while it is OK for spectators or commentators to be speculating about how well a player will perform based on past performance, when players do this they virtually guarantee that their future performance will be no better than their past performance. I wonder whether my memory serves me correctly and (more importantly) whether yo From memory, you made the point that while it is OK for spectators or commentators to be speculating about how well a player will perform based on past performance, when players do this they virtually guarantee that their future performance will be no better than their past performance. …I SAY…I'm not sure whether I addressed this point directly, but it is a corollary of what I'm saying. However, expectations about one's performance is only one part of it. There are also your expectations about how people will react to you, which plays a big part in the stuttering system. When you are primarily MOTIVATED by your intentions, it's not you don't have expectations. You may have tons and tons of them. It's just that the SOURCE of your motivation lies in your intentions. Therefore, you're not paralyzed or crippled by a lack of positive response or approval. It's this that allows someone like Thomas Edison to try something over 6000 times before he got it to work. Incidentally, Edison was also the source of the quote –- "Genius is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. …YOU SAY… << I wonder whether my memory serves me correctly and (more importantly) whether you think that intentions Vs expectations does correspond closely with player Vs commentator/ spectator viewpoints >> …..I SAY…I I don't think I ever addressed that directly, but it's an interesting point to consider. I'll have to think about that a bit. Nice hearing from you, Winton. u think that intentions Vs expectations does correspond closely with player Vs commentator/ spectator viewpoints.