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“We’ve been told that Henry Ford never fired employees but shifted them around until he found the niche that was right for them. A”
― Peg Dawson, The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success: How to Use Your Brain's Executive Skills to Keep Up, Stay Calm, and Get Organized at Work and at Home

“flexibility often have a weakness in emotional control as well. Their inflexibility often leads them to become angry or anxious when they are confronted with an event they weren’t anticipating.”
― Peg Dawson, The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success: How to Use Your Brain's Executive Skills to Keep Up, Stay Calm, and Get Organized at Work and at Home

“The idea is that there are three opportunities to take measures to elicit or change the behavior as desired: by changing what comes before it (the external factors, or environment), by aiming directly at the behavior itself (through teaching), and by imposing consequences (incentives or penalties).”
― Peg Dawson, Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential

“The trouble shows up when they need to organize output—deciding what to do when and then controlling their own behavior to get there.”
― Peg Dawson, Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential

“If you tend to … procrastinate jump from one activity to another without finishing any have trouble keeping workspaces or homes neat and organized forget to do things you’ve promised find yourself chronically running late lose your cool when people don’t behave the way you think they should struggle to come up with Plan B when things don’t go the way you thought they would fritter away your time when you know there’s work to be done”
― Peg Dawson, The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success: How to Use Your Brain's Executive Skills to Keep Up, Stay Calm, and Get Organized at Work and at Home

“The more discrete the skills are, the easier it is to develop operational definitions of them. When the skills can be operationalized, it’s easier to create interventions to improve those operations. For”
― Peg Dawson, Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential

“حوِّل مهمة ترتيب حجرة اللعب إلى لعبة مثل الكراسي الموسيقية. شغل الموسيقى واطلب منهم تغيير أماكنهم في حجرة اللعب. وعندما تتوقف الموسيقى, "يتوقف الأطفال في أماكنهم" ثم يجمعون الأشياء التي تكون في متناول أيديهم حين يقفون. • دوَّن المهام الروتينية المطلوب إنجازها على قصاصات من الورق, ثم اطوِها وضعها في وعاء، بحيث يختار الأطفال ورقة واحدة ويؤدون المهمة الروتينية المدونة عليها.”
― Peg Dawson, ‫ذكي ولكن مشتت : أسلوب المهارات التنفيذية الثوري لمساعدة الأطفال على تحقيق إمكاناتهم ‬