"Sound conservation practice demands that we remove all risks" 

> The fear of peer criticism...
When this fear manifests as an emotional outburst in the midst of an 
on-site project it can be very confusing, and disturbing, to those 
present and involved who have no clue where the fear is derived from. 
Communication of emotion is not generally done in a clean or 
particularly professional manner and is usually by definition absent a 
few elements of reason. The sooner a project team recognizes the basis 
of a communication as emotional the sooner that it can be dealt with and 
adjusted. In most cases a minor adjustment to accept the present reality 
as being of more importance than the imagined one.

Yesterday watching a dog training show on TV the Jack Russel was 
dissuaded from jumping up on the leash and doing back flips while 
clawing the air and yipping, when it encountered another dog on its 
walk, by the owner quickly telling it to sit and putting a treat in 
front of its face. This is not a talent of pet training that comes 
natural to me as my initial reaction would be to want to club the mutt 
in the head with my flashlight... and that is why my wiser partner sends 
me out to buy coffee. Though I have managed to train my dog to stop 
biting friends and architects in the tush.

But quite often we sop up the great pool of blame, that is our role, we 
are the ones that touched it.

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