Put On Your Thinking Cap

Richard Young

• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781977271419
• eBook ISBN: 9781977275363
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Behavioural Management

Nobody tells you what to do when you're hauling a huge road roller on a flatbed truck in the mountains and the gas tank is nearly on empty. You have to figure it out. Nobody prepared me to survive in a foreign country with only a few coins in my pocket because I gave my folding money to two girls who ran out of money. I had to figure it out. Nobody told me how to teach a band full of teen-agers. I had to figure out how to write music for all their instruments that would sound good and be fun as well as educational. I had to figure it out. Nobody told me how to keep living with no source of income for my wife and four kids and myself. I had to figure it out. That's what the book is about.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Prologue: Always Thinking!
• 1 Austerity in Austria
• 2 Beginning Misadventures Going to Europe
• 3 Busy Life at the University of Oregon
• 4 University Tour of Europe Begins
• 5 Going To a Real Opera
• 6 Short Stop Tour of Europe
• 7 Outstanding European Events
• 8 Oldenburg
• 9 Early Work Adventures
• 10 Pendleton High School
• 11 Student Life During the Viet Nam War
• 12 Teacher at Last
• 13 Marriage
• 14 Baha’i Pilgrimage
• 15 Travels Through Europe with Family
• 16 Family Life and the Baha’i Faith
• 17 Pioneering in Switzerland
• 18 Pioneering in Germany
• 19 Teaching Band
• 20 Schweinfurt, Germany
• 21 Back to America
• 22 Teaching in a Small Coastal Town
• 23 Moving to Washington State
• 24 On to Hood River, Oregon
• 25 Managing with Cars and Four Children
• 26 Working in Hood River
• 27 Working Again in Washington State
• 28 Service in Retirement
• 29 Working With the Land
• 30 Declining Health
• 30 Baha’i Activities During the Pandemic