It's funny that this article is about focus and my complaint, often and now, is about how something so false screws up my ability to think. "Goleman explains that our brains our designed for two types of thinking" gets me stuck in this infinite loop of asking 'How the hell does Goleman or anyone else know how are brains are designed?' It could functionally seem this way, yes, but to blanketly say that our brains are designed at all, let alone boiled down to two simple speeds. I think it's a personal illness that I can't get over the literal meaning of a single statement long enough to digest the rest of an article. I share because it could affect others and might be worth mentioning.

Truly the system is not working. However the mindset you mention above is not the only one, hence this article. Look around the country at programs such as RJOY (Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth), the Longmont programs I mention in this article; Baltimore's Community Conferencing Center featured on recent PBS Documentary "Fixing Juvie Justice", and in the countless up and coming programs that have DA's like Stanley Garnett in CO (Boulder Co.) stating that restorative justice is not just another flash in the pan approach and saves a significant amount of time and money, not to mention human lives that are turned around, victims and perpetrators alike, because of the opportunity to face and express truths regarding cause and affect which in turn gives everyone involved a better shot at living better futures.

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