"Parents often wonder why boys buy into my system so quickly; in two hours, I have the typical “impossible” teenager willing to give my organizational and time-management system a good try. The reason it works is that by simply focusing on their strengths instead of railing against what they are doing wrong, we set a foundation and build from there. It’s demoralizing and ineffective to focus on the negative—who ever enjoyed that meeting with a boss who only told you everything you did wrong?"
(page 17, Kindle edition)
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