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...Victoria] needs to work on her defense and gain consistency with her rebounding,” Delaney-Smith adds. “But we’re pleased with where she is and she continues to get better and better everyday...
...We’ve been working on] positivity, confidence, and sharpening our skills,” co-captain Katherine O’Donnell said. “We want to remember that squash is fun and it’s what we’ve loved to do for so many years. It will make the tension-filled weekend a culmination of our hard work...
...having "recovered" her own son from autism. "Evan couldn't talk - now he talks. Evan couldn't make eye contact - now he makes eye contact. Evan was antisocial - now he makes friends," she explains. "It was amazing to watch, over the course of doing this, how certain therapies work for certain kids and they completely don't work for others ... When something didn't work for Evan, I didn't stop. I stopped that treatment, but I didn't stop." (See how genes, gender and diet may be life extenders...
According to the gold-standard work in this area, German scholar Peter Schönbach's seminal 1980 paper on what academics call "the taxonomy of accounts," there are four main ways people respond to their "failure events": the concession ("I did it, it was my fault, I'm sorry"), the excuse ("I did it, but it wasn't my idea/it was raining/the woman made me do it"), the justification ("I did it, but it was necessary") and the refusal ("I didn't do it"). Not to take issue with Schönbach, but he seems to have left...
...apologies have to be such a big deal? A recent study found that in work situations, women apologized more frequently, but if men apologized, they were more likely to do so to women. And while women were more likely to say sorry to underlings, men were more likely to apologize to bosses...