Thank you to Larry Bodine for so fairly and effectively summarizing an exchange of differing views (between me and Neil Witmer) in his post: Neil Witmer Responds: It’s Wishful Thinking to Try to Convert Non-Rainmakers. Also hats off to Neil Witmer, Ph.D. for his willingness to complete the exchange with his fair-minded comments. 
My original
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If we extrapolate from Seth’s comments combined with my observations of our
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