I am sincere when I say this is feed back I can use.

I spent an extremely large portion of my time building, evaluating and conducting professional development training. So, what I write sometimes gets colored by the questions asked by participants. Their questions can cause me to stray from behaviors and temperament into other surrounding areas and if I don’t do a good job of connecting them for my readers it can definitely look like I’m doing “filler pieces.”

The water cure experiment is a case in point. In one of the behavior focused classes I was teaching the impact of environmental chemicals and stimulants and their relationships to temperament came in to question. The experiment was an attempt to explore how someone with my temperament might react, and cope with an arbitrary adjustment in their life. I chose liquid intake because it was the easiest to explore. But, as you point out, I didn’t do a good job making the connection.

Elemental Truths is about the readers. I want to provide something of value them. When I get feed back like yours, it gives me an opportunity to do that.

In fact, I will probably use our entire exchange (with your credit of course) in a post about temperament behavior and product continuity.

Thank you and God Bless,

Reg Adkins

To answer your question, I enjoy every article on behavior management and temperaments. I didn’t understand your experiments with water (and so I didn’t like it). And sometimes I felt that you posted few articles just for the sake of posting.

Probably it is a dilemma between what you want to write and what your readers come to expect.

Keep posting your articles. They have helped me a lot. In case I come across any entries in the category of ‘deviating-from-core-strengths’, I will email you.

Now about the “active participation” section.
This is probably the only part where my views do not completely coincide with yours. One can pursue what he loves doing only when hes absolutely sure that he has found his true calling. In my view nothing is enjoyable in its starting phase. Thats the part which is the most difficult to overcome. Most with weaker resolve and determination quit at this stage itself. Its only when you move on further despite all the difficulties you reach a level which can also be termed as the ‘ICE BREAKING POINT’. And once the ice is broken it’s all a downhill task from there. Learning no longer needs any added effort, it becomes a normal state of affairs for you. Thats when you get a sense of accomplishment of mastering something. It’s only after this would you be in a position to decide whether you actually loved what you learned or otherwise. This is again another critical point when many decide to quit as they discover this was not what they were meant to do. Those who adhere to this are probably the selected few who have actually found what they want in life.