Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965
Recorded · Engineering and Science / Caltech Magazine · 1976
We'd walk in the canyons, and we'd often walk with Bethe, and Von Neumann, and Bacher. It was a great pleasure.
Teaching & development
Coaches & mentors
How potential is seen, standards are held, feedback lands, losses teach, and developmental relationships end.
12 questions, 203 quoted from what public figures said elsewhere, each with its source. Every question is asked in FLAPSS wording — nobody answers as anybody else.
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Which teacher, parent, coach, or friend most made you who you are, and what did you learn from them?
Atmospheric chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1995
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 1996
I had a number of very good teachers in high school, in fact.
American football quarterback
Recorded · Academy of Achievement
My dad had such a big influence on me, he was kind of all that wrapped into one.
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- What do you notice in a person before they can see that ability in themselves? —
- What are you best at that nobody watching would notice? 26
- How do you deliver a hard truth at a moment when somebody can still use it? —
- How do you build confidence without protecting somebody from honest standards? —
- What do you owe the person who is not selected, promoted, or put into the game? —
- How has a setback or failure set you up for later success? 69
- What can a loss teach that a win usually conceals? —
- What makes you want to keep learning? 9
- When you need counsel, who is the first person you call? 12
- What are you unwilling to optimise? 30
- How do you know when your role in somebody's development is finished? —
- Which teacher, parent, coach, or friend most made you who you are, and what did you learn from them? 57
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