The Art of Dodging Questions

First Prayer

O Great St. Joseph of Cupertino who while on earth did obtain from God the grace to be asked at your examination only the questions you knew, obtain for me a like favour in the examinations for which I am now preparing. In return I promise to make you known and cause you to be invoked.
Through Christ our Lord.
St. Joseph of Cupertino, Pray for us.
Amen.

Second Prayer

O St. Joseph of Cupertino who by your prayer obtained from God to be asked at your examination, the only preposition you knew. Grant that I may like you succeed in the (here mention the name of Examination eg. History paper I ) examination. In return I promise to make you known and cause you to be invoked.
O St. Joseph of Cupertino pray for me
O Holy Ghost enlighten me
Our Lady of Good Studies pray for me
Sacred Head of Jesus, Seat of divine wisdom, enlighten me. Joseph of Cupertino has been declared the patron saint of air travelers, aviators, astronauts, people with a mental handicap, test takers and poor students.

“I’m glad you asked me that…”
 or
“First let me tell you why issue X is so important to the ______ people…”
JuriSense The Art of Dodging Questions  http://jurisense.com/blog/?p=27

CBC Tapestry: Writer Mary Gordon says good-hearted Catholics are made out to be liars, cheats and sinners because the way they live defies church rules. Listen in:  http://www.cbc.ca/tapestry/episode/2014/10/03/liars-cheats-and-sinners/

JuriSense How Rules and Reptile Approaches Work

• I am doing everything right
• having a job is easy, life is easy
• I should always make mistakes
• other people are encouraged in me
• I’m not terrified, only my thinking is terrified
• I must be some kind of amazing person to be so nervous about something so fundamental to life
• the world is a wonderful place

Who would you be without the belief that feeling intensely is dangerous? Set Yourself Free? You are free!

A FOUR-STEP MINDMAP FOR NEGOTIATING SETBACKS AND FAILURE

Step One: Make peace with encountering failure; the goal is not to never fail, but to learn to fail better.

Step Two: Know that success and failure share the same road.

Step Three: Applaud yourself to the extent you got in the ring instead of sitting on the sidelines.

Step Four: Circumscribe your conclusions—and your shame—to the iteration.

Just because you didn’t yet doesn’t mean you can’t. www.catherinecollautt.com

Change The World By Answering Good Questions

Arbutus Compoundis: the tree that grows money.