Coaching practices for What is the Meaning of Sticking Out Your Tongue
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- The name is right there on the tip of my tongue, I can almost taste it
- I can actually feel myself overheating
- I thought I understood this until I tried to actually say it out loud
- I catch myself swallowing a yawn or holding back a sigh because it feels rude or like I’m not paying attention
- Every time I get near a certain kind of suffering in this practice I notice myself flinch and want to stop or look away
Practices that may help
- Tip-of-tongue resolution practice
When you feel you know something but can’t retrieve it, work the retrieval actively rather than giving up.
Feeling of Knowing: Why Your Confidence Misleads You - Sitali (cooling breath)
Inhale through a curled tongue or between the teeth to cool and calm a heated nervous system.
Nostril Breathing: Pranayama for Calm and Focus - Explain it out loud to a real or imagined learner
Actually say the explanation aloud, to a person, a pet, or an empty chair.
The Protege Effect: Learn It Better by Teaching It - Recognizing and allowing orienting completions
Notice yawns, sighs, swallows, and blinking after orienting — these are the nervous system signaling "not a threat."
The Orienting Response, Made Practical - Investigate resistance to the practice honestly
The impulse not to breathe in suffering is information about where your self-protective contraction lives.
Tonglen: The Tibetan Practice of Taking and Sending - Failure tolerance building
Normalize getting stuck — use stuck-ness as a diagnostic signal rather than a stop sign.
Productive Failure: How Struggling First Makes Instruction More Effective - Disagree with your manager constructively
State your disagreement clearly, give your reasoning, and then commit to the decision — without sacrificing either honesty or loyalty.
Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss - Make It Stick: The Science of Learning
"Make It Stick", by Peter Brown with psychologists Henry Roediger and Mark McDaniel, distills decades of cognitive science into a few high-leverage practices: retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving, and elaboration. Its central counterintuitive claim — that the most effective learning feels harder and slower than rereading — is backed by strong experimental evidence. - Use the count for courage to speak or share
Count down and say the thing — raise your hand, send the message, ask the question — before fear edits it away.
The 5 Second Rule, Made Practical - The speech audit: THINK before you speak
Before speaking in a charged moment, check whether the words are True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind.
Ahimsa: Non-Violence as a Daily Practice
Related concerns
- When Noble Eightfold Path Right Speech Practice
Before speaking in a charged moment, check whether the words are True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind.
The speech audit: THINK before you speak
- When The View From Above Applying The View To Anger
In the moment of anger, use the zoom-out as a circuit breaker before you speak or act.
Apply the view to interrupt anger
- Are Words From Sports War Hunting And Fighting Inappropriate For The Workplace
Build self-talk cues from your own best performance experiences — not from a generic list.
Develop personal cue words that have real meaning for you
- Courage To Speak Up
Give team members specific language for raising concerns, not just permission to raise them.
Teach speak-up skills, not just encourage speaking up
- Made To Stick Tap Test
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), developed by Gary Craig, combines tapping specific body points (derived from acupuncture meridians) while making verbal statements about a distressing experience. Multiple randomized trials report reductions in anxiety, PTSD symptoms, and cortisol, but study quality is variable and the control conditions rarely isolate the tapping component. The evidence suggests EFT produces real effects; whether the acupoints are the mechanism or whether the benefits come from the exposure, distraction, or somatic-attention components is genuinely unresolved.
- Make It Stick Summary
"Make It Stick", by Peter Brown with psychologists Henry Roediger and Mark McDaniel, distills decades of cognitive science into a few high-leverage practices: retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving, and elaboration. Its central counterintuitive claim — that the most effective learning feels harder and slower than rereading — is backed by strong experimental evidence.
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