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This is good, clear, you-can-do-it stuff; just click the players below to listen.
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Oddly enough, I found it encouraging, probably because living in a culture of constant "everyone's a winner," you-can-do-it self-helpitude gets me down sometimes, as it feels like BS.
On Rejection 2009
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She gives me a you-can-do-it smile and heads back to the living room, me attached to her by the cord.
Circling '84 2010
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Two days later, Gourmet magazine editor, Ruth Reichl, gave me the same "you-can-do-it" feeling at Columbia University's Delacorte Lectures.
Abi Wright: Gourmet's Ruth Reichl on Twitter and the Recession's Silver Lining 2009
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I love this kind of rah-rah, you-can-do-it sewing book, because rah-rah! you CAN do it.
October 2008 2008
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It is one of those self-help, rah-rah, you-can-do-it tracts that were so popular in the optimistic 80's.
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I love this kind of rah-rah, you-can-do-it sewing book, because rah-rah! you CAN do it.
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Parents deliver hundreds of these you-can-do-it speeches in the effort to encourage the underachiever to do better in school.
The Unmotivated Child Ph.D Natalie Rathvon 1996
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Moreover, parents usually deliver a you-can-do-it speech after the child has received a poor grade or a bad report from school, so that he is likely to associate failure and humiliation with such a speech.
The Unmotivated Child Ph.D Natalie Rathvon 1996
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Parents deliver hundreds of these you-can-do-it speeches in the effort to encourage the underachiever to do better in school.
The Unmotivated Child Ph.D Natalie Rathvon 1996
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