Step on to the playground and listen. As tensions rise, you just might hear a preschooler or perhaps a kindergartener squeal, “My dad can do anything!”
Flash back to 1946 and hear the battle of the sexes put to music as Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton perform “Anything You Can Do” in Annie Get Your Gun.
Anything you can do, I can do better. I can do anything better…
If at first you don’t succeed, then try, try, try again.
William Edward Hickson was a British educational writer. Wikipedia credits him with writing the proverb (to be read with full British accent…)
‘Tis a lesson you should heed;
Try,…
If your clothes catch on fire, then stop, drop and roll.
That’s planning at its simplest. Imagine the emotion of such an experience.
You feel heat, notice flames. Pain begins surging through your brain. Melting skin. Thoughts of death. What would your reaction be?
You might be tempted to run fast…
