...But respect for them and their ideas is essential to build confidence to try. Respect is the intervention that turns self-fulling prophesy into self-confidence and winning. My fourth job is to expect from me the highest standards of instruction, coaching, and evaluation. (read more)
...Around the same time that I started grad school, I started tutoring for an established tutoring center in Dallas. A few months later, my wife and I assumed ownership of the center after the founding owner decided he could no longer run it. We ran it successfully for a number of years until we had to move across the country so I could accept a full-time teaching position at a university. (read more)