I have been working to understand the role of self-efficacy in my response to the injury. When I first encountered the concept, there was a moment of startling clarity. Self-efficacy appeared to explain so much of my behaviour especially the depressive events, or as I came to euphemistically describe them, the tailspins.
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Category Archives: History
One Fifty!
This is post one fifty. 150. One hundred and fifty blog entries.
It is hard to believe I arrived at this milestone so quickly.
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Gargantua
Gargantua is a company that learns from its mistakes. When it fired the one hundred person US support group, it almost immediately faced the embarrassment of trying to rehire them. The foreign replacement workforce was not up to snuff. Gargantua scrambled to fix this problem by recalling the freshly terminated workers. Further embarrassment came when half of the fired workers refused the offer to return. When it was time for Gargantua to get rid of us, the company wanted to avoid making the same mistake twice in row.
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