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No Individual Can Be In Full Control Of His Fate-our Strengths Come Significantly From Our History, Our Experiences Largely From The Vagaries Of Chance. But By Seizing The Opportunity To Leverage And Frame These Experiences, We Gain Agency Over Them. And This Heightened Agency, In Turn, Places Us In A Stronger Position To Deal With Future Experiences, Even As It May Alter Our Own Sense Of Strengths And Possibilities.

I Believe That The Brain Has Evolved Over Millions Of Years To Be Responsive To Different Kinds Of Content In The World. Language Content, Musical Content, Spatial Content, Numerical Content, Etc.

Kids Make Their Mark In Life By Doing What They Can Do, Not What They Can't... School Is Important, But Life Is More Important. Being Happy Is Using Your Skills Productively, No Matter What They Are.

When Speaking To Parents, I Encourage Them To Take Their Child(ren) To A Children's Museum And Watch Carefully What The Child Does, How She/she Does It, What He/she Returns To, Where There Is Definite Growth. Teachers Could Do The Same Or Could Set Up 'play Areas' Which Provide 'nutrition' For Different Intelligences... And Watch Carefully What Happens And What Does Not Happen With Each Child.

The Biggest Communities In Which Young People Now Reside Are Online Communities.