Joe Friel
Is positive self-talk affective for athletes? Or better to question your capability to succeed? http://tinyurl.com/27d2b9c
about 1 hour ago from web
affective?
or effective...
i'm a notoriously crappy speller and habitual wrong word user but even I feel pretty confident about the proper use of affect vs effect. And I think Joe got it wrong.
But that article he links brings up interesting bits. Brent picked up and blogged about my "positive" mental attitude, or attempt. Which really was not so much, "I am fast enough, strong enough," as not saying, "I always get dropped here."
Something more [for me] to think about.
And I think it is important to make the distinction between positive and positive while questioning. Often it seems we are predisposed to negativity when questioning.
random thoughts while scarfing down a tiny bit of lunch before coasting down the hill to the remote facility for a good handful of hours.
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i always think of it like "affect" is the cause, the action word, verbesque, while "effect" is the result of the "affect". Probably an oversimplification. But generally speaking you don't effect someone/thing, your affect on them/that results in an effect.
But I am an engineer, so I am probably wrong.
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