This short educational movie from Centron is directed by the usually highly competent Herk Harvey. It offers a view of junior high school -- for me those were grades 7 and 8 -- that admits it is daunting, but that it is well within your ability.
But what it if isn't? "Do more than you think you can" the narrator urges his audience. Suppose you think you can do more than you can? Overconfidence is just as common as timidity, and there's even a scientific term for it: the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Suppose, like me, people daunt you? It's not so easy to make that leap of faith, particularly given the fact that most high-school students are far too immature and, according to this, too busy doing more than they think they can, to bother with you.
Librarians, I found, are invariably kind, and a chair with a book in your hand is a fine place to hide.
But what it if isn't? "Do more than you think you can" the narrator urges his audience. Suppose you think you can do more than you can? Overconfidence is just as common as timidity, and there's even a scientific term for it: the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Suppose, like me, people daunt you? It's not so easy to make that leap of faith, particularly given the fact that most high-school students are far too immature and, according to this, too busy doing more than they think they can, to bother with you.
Librarians, I found, are invariably kind, and a chair with a book in your hand is a fine place to hide.
