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‘Test Success!’ on Bay Sunday
Terrific interview with Frank Mallicoat on CBS Bay Sunday a popular Bay area
weekend news show. Frank was well informed and very easy to talk with. Thanks also to the producer and to the interns for making the whole experience so comfortable See the clip.
Had the great surprise to meet Alexia Martinique (see pic on the right) now a communications intern whom I knew years ago when she was a bright light of the Young Entrepreneurs at Haas program (Y.E.A.H). You go Alexia! And thanks Frank!
Guest blogging at Stanford
TEST SUCCESS! continues to get attention!
Do have a look on The College Puzzle, a college success blog by noted Stanford University educator Dr. Michael W. Kirst. Dr Kirst invited me to write a guest post, today featured on his website. The article is, “Get a Grip on Test Stress.”
Dr. Kirst’s blog is a most useful resource for college students helping them through the challenges of their college years. Do check it out, and thank you Dr. Kirst for including Test Success! in your mission.
Dr. B on KPIX-CBS, KRON and more.
"Bay Sunday" with Frank Mallicoat
A full weekend!
Two TV interviews on Sunday. The first was on CBS (local affiliate KPIX), Bay Sunday with Frank Mallicoat
Next was on NBC (KRON) AM Weekend with Ysabel Duron and Marty Gonzales.
The press release on the book got picked up by HowToLearn.com and a news story comes out on Monday in US News and World Report.
Thank you Sharon Goldinger, Mary Ellen Gross and Javier Perez, my terrific publicists. Your dedicated, focused hardwork is paying off big time.
Take a break
Feeding the fire within
Every spiritual tradition teaches stopping. It’s a way to break habits, a way to let space into your otherwise overcrowded life, a way to restore balance.
So this is my break.
I am at a remarkable retreat called vaidyagrama, a healing village, in the south of India. Until January 10, I will be away from computers and emails and telephones.
During times of retreat we can reflect on what has happened and what is to come. But mostly, we can consider the great gifts we have, right now. 2011 was an extraordinary year. 2012 holds many promises.
I wish you all a happy, healthy New Year. I hope it is off to a good start in the direction that will most bring balance and fulfillment into your life.
Bring in a new year with every breath
Take a moment to breathe
New Year’s greetings to everyone, far and wide! May it be a year of peace, health and prosperity for all.
Since the beginning of a new year is usually filed with resolutions– which are really thinly disguised attempts to change habits — I’m going to begin the year with a series of posts on habits.
Habits determine the quality of our lives. And they are fundamental if you want to reduce your stress around taking tests.
Life is made up of habits. Think about it. As you are reading this you are breathing (whether you are aware of your breath or not). As Continue reading
Balance: Untying the knots of anxiety
Are you all tied up?
As I write this I am in south India at an Ayurvedic retreat. Ayurveda is the oldest system of healing arts known to man. It dates back thousands of years to the writing of the Vedas, or ancient texts.
One of the pillars of this remarkably comprehensive and far-reaching system is to establish and maintain balance of body, mind and spirit. Since this corresponds so directly with the work I do as a stress psychologist I want to take a moment, at year’s end, review this foundational aspect of good health. Let’s start out with Continue reading
It’s OK not to know
A young girl was brought to me because she was failing in math. Her parents were concerned that she wouldn’t get admitted to the competitive middle school to which she was applying. And there was also another potential problem: the interview. The girl, I’ll call her Amy, tended to shut down with strangers.
Sure enough, she wouldn’t talk to me.
OK, I thought, now what? I saw Amy eyeing a set of colored markers Continue reading
Your question: “How to get rid of anxiety before an exam?”
You need some energy to perform well
Today’s question is: How do I get rid of my anxiety before an exam?
Answer: You don’t get “rid” of anxiety. A little bit of anxiety has been shown (in over a hundred years of research) to be a good thing. Remember the “Yerkes-Dodson curve” (see illustration). Yerkes and Dodson were two psychologists who showed, at the beginning of the 20th century, that there’s a direct relationship between stress and performance. Too much or too little stress and performance suffers. You Continue reading
Test Prep and Fear of flying, part 2
Afraid? Again?
I’ve recently started coaching three very different people who have exactly the same issue with tests: they’re all afraid of failing. To be accurate, they’re all afraid of failing again.
Each of them (a high school, college and graduate student) had a bad experience in the past with a test—one didn’t finish in time, one didn’t get the score she wanted and one actually failed. I’m using the word “bad experience” instead of “failure.” While every one of us has had a bad experience with a test none of us is a failure because of it.
Following what I wrote in my last post: when you have a bad experience you have two choices with how you are going to hold that experience. Choice #1: You say to yourself, “Oh, no, it happened before and it’s going to happen again. For sure. No way I’m going to Continue reading
Fear of flying, part 1
Do you really have to be so frightened every time?
When I was a young child — 9 years old to be exact– my parents sent me on a plane, alone, to visit my beloved aunt in Florida. It was exciting to travel by myself and I was treated royally by the flight crew.
Somewhere along the way the plane got into a big storm and started bouncing around terribly. This was in the days of prop planes, much smaller than the ones today and much more vulnerable to bad weather. The turbulence got worse and worse and the plane was now getting thrown around in the sky, People started screaming. I was so scared. My aunt said that when I got off the plane in Miami and ran into her arms she saw that I had bitten clear through my bottom lip.
This event had a terrible effect on me for years every time I went into an airplane . For days Continue reading
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