Happy MT Week Tuesday: What is Holding You Back?
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat” (Theodore Roosevelt)
How many times do we say to ourselves “I can’t do that, what if I fail?” I find in my own personal life I’ve said that before. There’s some new venture I’d really like to try and yet fear of failure stops me from doing it. None of us likes to think about failing at something. And yet, isn’t the real failure in never trying?
Think about what happens when you DO try and actually succeed! Go back to something in your life where you took the risk, it worked, and imagine how life was because of that. It’s amazing.
Six months ago, my job was “furloughed.” That’s a fancy term for being laid off without the benefit of any kind of severance because the company says “maybe we will call you back.” Well, that didn’t happen and I found myself wondering what life would bring next. In the past year or so I had become very interested in blogging and what people were doing online. So, I took a course. It was a course on how to do SEO (yep, the internet world has acronyms too, and this one stands for search engine optimization) and how to set up a website so that people, and the search engines, “find” it. It was all about how to do things online and was taught by some of the best bloggers out there. It was challenging beyond my imagination as I tried to learn a new language and apply it to a few things I was doing online. When it came time to take their certification test, I was worried. What if I didn’t pass it? What if I had just spent all this time in classes trying to learn something new and none of it stuck? Worse yet, if I failed, what did that say about my ability to learn new things? And yet, there was that small voice in my head that said “what if it doesn’t work out? What if you hate it? Maybe you should just get a ‘real’ job.” Taking that step was a challenge. The result of that course was that I took and passed that exam, and this site is part of the results of that.
So what have I learned? Wow. The risk was so worth it. Had I not done that, I would have never known the joy of being able to create something that brings value to the profession I love so much. The opportunity to truly make a difference in our industry, and more importantly in the lives of those who come here to read has been an amazing experience. I’ve had blessings in my life far beyond my greatest expectations. I am so glad that I listened to the other voice in my head, the one that said “take the risk it’s worth it.”
What is it that you’re holding back on? What risk do you need to take in your life that has every potential to bring the joy of victory? Consider that today. Don’t choose to live your life “in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
Tuesday’s MT Puzzler: Today’s drawings will be for one copy of Stedman’s Orthopaedic Word Book and one Credentials Study Course! Remember, you must comment below and post a link to this page on Facebook, Twitter, or other website to be eligible for the drawings! Two lucky winners today, good luck!
Human beings are colorful creatures. Which part of the anatomy is referred to as the rainbow passage?
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- Is Fear Holding You Back?
- Happy MT Week Saturday: Be a Linchpin
- Happy MT Week Wednesday: It’s all about Choices!
- Happy MT Week Thursday: Values
- Happy MT Week Monday: Goals
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You are so right. Suceeding is all about taking risks. You will never grow and move forward if you don’t take a chance. Evan if you fail in the end, you always learn something along the way.
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You are so right. Suceeding is all about taking risks. You will never grow and move forward if you don’t take a chance. Evan if you fail in the end, you always learn something along the way.
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Kathy Reply:
May 18th, 2010 at 10:29 am
Good point, Shelley. It is about learning along the way. It’s how we improve and eventually grow and make it!
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Hmmmmm… the only “rainbow passage” I am finding is a speech test used to measure balanced consonants and vowels, in an article talking about the “laryngeal manifestations of stroke”. So, I going to guess the larynx???
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/867575-overview
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Great question! I found what Heidi found as well… a “rainbow passage” related to speech pathology testing. I would have to guess the larynx is the answer to your question.
Happy MT Week everyone!
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I am going to go out on a limb and guess the iris. This is a tough question.
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Well, my most current version of Vera’s Current Medical Terminology is only the 6th edition, and its not in there. So it must be a relatively new term. Probably something made up by a resident somewhere. I think we should discourage that. LOL That is my MT week wish, that we could somehow train those doctors-in-infancy from the outset how NOT to dictate!
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I would have to say the eyes as you see all kinds of colors through the eyes.
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Everything I found online dealt with the larynx. My computer is really being slow today, and I wasn’t able to actually open up any of the references as every single one was taking forever; but my money is on the larynx, even though I don’t quite understand why it has been given that nickname.
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My research doesn’t mention an anatomy per se, but here is the definition I found:
“The Rainbow Passage is one of the most common standard reading passages used to test an individual’s ability to produce connected speech….It was designed to contain almost all the English phonemes (it’s missing ʒ and the glottal stop). But it includes some fun things that many other reading passages don’t, like the syllabic m in ‘prism’ and the syllabic l in ‘Aristotle’.”
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It is the glottic space between the vocal cords.
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This is a tough one! I’ve looked in all my Stedman’s books that I have and on the internet and so far the only thing I come up with is the the Rainbow Passage is one of the most common standard reading passages used to test an individual’s ability to produce connected speech, used by speech and voice pathologists. This is fun! Thanks Kathy!
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Kathy Reply:
May 18th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Well, now I was looking for something a little more challenging than yesterday’s and looks like we’ve got it! I’ll post a reference to the answer here at the end of the day!
That’s one thing about MTs, we look until we find the answer!
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I am with Heidi and Kathy; it is the larynx. Thank you for the Radiology Word Book. Mine only copy is from 1995!
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All I could find on this term is the passage used to test speech. If I had to guess, I would go with the other ladies on here and say larynx.
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“Rainbow Passage” balanced consonants and vowels.
Rainbow passage
When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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I thought it had something to do with ocular vision and the nerves that allows one to see the full scope of colors in vision. This is a hard one.
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I stand corrected. I found it:
The Rainbow Passage is a standard piece of text used by speech pathologists when working with speech students as it has every sound in the English language. This is often used to also help speech recognition software train to your voice. Such as Dragon Naturally Speaking software.
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I am thinking it is something to do with testing for a respirator. Respiratory protection testing.
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Ok Kathy, I’m back on the internet, still looking for a definitive answer! I finally found a surgeon’s reference to the presurgery “rainbow passage” along the vocal cords, but not a succinct definition. When are you going to post the answer? (Although I think Shelley found it this morning!)
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Kathy Reply:
May 18th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Indeed, this is correct! The rainbow passage is a space between the vocal cords! That one made you guys work!
And yes, Shelley did find it this morning! You can find this in Current Medical Terminology, 10th edition, page 672. Tomorrow’s quiz question will be out in the morning! Way to go guys, hope you are enjoying this!
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Woohoo! Way to go Shelley!! Can’t wait for tomorrow’s puzzler. Thanks for a great day of “hunting” Kathy. :0)
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My Current Med Terminology was the 8th Ed, my Taber’s, Dorland’s and Stedman’s Dictionaries did not have it. Finally I googled it and found it. Did find it to be common standard reading test to measure balanced vowels and constants.
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This was fun! Can’t wait to do it again.
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Space between the vocal cords.
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I found references via Google for the larynx.
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