while waiting for the book!

Getting the book ready to print has taken much longer than I imagined it would. Somehow I thought all that stream of conscious writing would magically coalesce into a coherent masterpiece. Anyone who's done this will tell you it ain't so!

While waiting for it to come together (and it will before you know it), I thought I'd write some thoughts as things come up for my clients.

I've been talking to people about "stupid mistakes". Of course, we all make stupid mistakes and that's often what we remember about our day ("I discovered a cure for cancer. Helped a bunch of children learn to read. Planted a marvelous garden. But wait until I tell you the STOOPID thing I did!") That's what we focus on, right?

When people are recovering from MTBI, there are phases when they seem to make a lot more of these stupid mistakes. I think it's because they're actually getting better, doing more, moving faster in in their daily activities. Exceeding the resources available to keep track of what they're doing. (You'll read more about this in the book.)

People forget more often. Put the cereal in the frig, the milk in the cabinet. Drop things more often. Maybe trip (even fall). It feels as if they're getting worse. But actually, they're just moving too fast, at this point, for the system to keep up.

I tell them, slow down a bit. Be a little more conscious of what you're doing. Maybe cut a few things out. They don't like to hear it but it works!