Avoiding Falling into a Hole

Jerry Biberman

Chapter 4.2 in Stories to Tell Your Students, 2011, pp 146-147 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract A person traveled to see a great teacher. The traveler explained to the teacher that despite her best efforts, she kept making the same mistakes and doing the same things—even after trying many times to not do so. In an attempt to help the traveler, the teacher told her the following story: A person was walking along a road when he fell into a hole without seeing it first. He resolved to not do so again. The next few times he walked down the road he saw the hole, but fell into it anyway. Eventually, after several attempts, he saw the hole and walked around it.

Keywords: Behavior change; Teacher (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230370432_64

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