Jack’s Winning Words 9/12/18
“Even the great get greater by doing more of it.”  (Colleen Wainwright)  You’ve heard the answer…”Practice, practice, practice!”  Do you know the question?  Whether it be Carnegie Hall or The Big House or the Olympics, “reps” are important to the participants.  That’s what makes someone the best.  That works in other aspects of life, too.  The Boy Scout doing the daily good deed begins to do them naturally.  Good health habits…Practicing politeness…etc.   ;-)  Jack

FROM HONEST JOHN:  Work was Prof Holcomb's secret formula.    He congratulated my partner and me when we were elected to Phi Beta Kappa and then said, "This means you are smart.   So are all the other teams.   If you want to beat them, outwork them."===JACK:  Studs Terkel, in his book, Working, describes the "work" of various people...but not including a debater.  Define, if you will, your professor's "secret formula."

FROM FACEBOOK LIZ:  👍===JACK:  I'm glad you liked it.

FROM FF MF:  Reminds me of what I always believed to be most important job on a fire scene.
The fire  engine operator (FEO), after arrival at the fire, has to secure a water supply, usually a hydrant, switch engine from drive to pump, connect intake hoses and supply hoses ,finally, pump water to the fire.  Any mistakes in these first critical moments means delay putting water on the fire.
We would have rookie firefighters practice this operation repeatedly, again and again.  High stress assignment for less than two minutes.===JACK:  It's interesting to know that fire fighters (and EMTs) are good at what they do because of practice, practice, practice.  If not for God's intervention, I might of been an FEO, too.

FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY:  Good habits have to become habits by practicing.  AND by example. ===JACK:  The word, habit, originally meant dress, or attire.  That's probably why the nun's attire was called a habit.  Habit also came to mean a person's demeanor, and that's probably why we refer to what a person customarily does or says as a habit.===JUDY:  That is very interesting!  I learned something new today!  Thank you



I loved driving the engine.