Coach Bill / Dad, Entrepreneur Special Educator, American Political Scientist, Writer, Musician.

According to Lao Tzu's thirty-fourth lesson, in his oft unknown second book, the Hua Hu Ching, "the character of your existence is determined by the energies to which you connect yourself. If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another- then you will lead a series of heavy, attached lives.  This can go on for a very long and tedious time." Just as it is in coding program into computer chips, the human is coded in varying degrees by everything they think, do, are exposed to, hang out with or watch on the television. It is hard to find the 'middle path' or balance if one has been brought up on a steady information diet since infancy. It can be as if man and woman are at the center of the universe and a factory line of a great number of conveyor belts are constantly feeding him and her impressions, ideas and things. Like a pond, these inputs can positively or ne...

updated 2/11/16 Metacognition, in layman’ s terms signifies how we approach the world through our thinking, to think about our thinking in order to review and edit our thought process so that we can gauge, change, maintain or seek to improve our course of action. Many of the students I work with do not place great value on social norms. Invariably, some of their traits and characteristics get ‘taken on by me.’ This is what happens when you are with someone for so long. Do we take on a bit of each other due to empathy? Are we like open books that we can write or code on each other a bit here and a bit there?  Processing (digesting code).  #theFieldGeneral, who is on the #autism spectrum is processing digested code on a a constant basis. We do it similarly, but ‘faster’  using a completely different cranial physical makeup. That is to say,  our brain is physically made slightly different because of the way we use it to think. The train tra...