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  • Some Things Can’t Be Taught

    in the classroom.  There are just things about life that just cannot be taught out of a book – in a classroom.  There are many things that just can’t be… Read more

  • You Don’t Interact with I

    I was doing some editing on my dissertation, and I “relearned” something.  I had simply forgotten it.  It’s wierd to learn from your own writing, but I had to take… Read more

  • The Role of Luck

    I watched this special on CNBC where Warren Buffet and Bill Gates taught some MBA students at Columbia Business School.  If you can catch it on CNBC or on the… Read more

  • Ordering Off the Menu

    I was on my way to a coffee shop this morning, and I thought about my order.  I was planning ahead.  It hit me that I don’t typically just order… Read more

  • Take the Emotion Out of It

    Have you ever heard anyone say this – that somehow we should just “take the emotion out of it”?  Have you said it? I had the opportunity to fill in… Read more

  • My 11th 2nd Birthday

    December 3, 1998.  I was in a huge car accident where my head went through the windshield of my car.  I fractured my forehead and my frontal sinus.  When they… Read more

  • Technology and Psychology

    Technology can mess us up psychologically. Did you know that there really wasn’t ADHD before TV.  TV was available around the 1920’s and 30’s.  The first time they used stimulants… Read more

  • Schola

    The word school comes from the Latin word schola and the Greek word schole. In the Greek – it this idea of “to have” or “to hold,” so literally, it’s… Read more

  • Dasha

    It is a Hebrew word – meaning “bring forth.”  Other definitions include: to sprout, shoot, grow green. I listened to a talk about it.  It’s this idea that all of… Read more

  • Reading Blogs

    I love reading them.  I love the honesty and the candor of them.  It’s been fun to follow people and their ideas, but even more important than that – it’s… Read more

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I’m Lem Usita, Ed.D.

This site was my blog for many years that is now the site for the work that I do. Thanks for visiting.

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