Nansook explained that he always taught each class in a different way. And his mind beneath it conjured miracles that nonetheless somehow he made look ordinary. From Nansook’s pictures he certainly looked happy and comfortable and at home in it. I imagine he must have loved the state it put him in when he wore that cap. One of the world’s recognised best teachers, in any field at all – not just psychology – has a thinking cap born of the people, a superficially worthless leftover of the common young man. I reckon it was his thinking cap! What a great symbol. Nansook offered to buy another on numerous occasions. He kept wearing it inside – including at his work desk. It had survived a season in lost and found after he took it there, presumably left behind in a classroom by a student. She had us all laughing about how Chris always wore a particular woollen cap in winter. She is a diminutive woman with power in the package. Her reflection of Chris’s contribution was just delightful. Nansook Park, his close friend and collaborator, spoke at his memorial session at the World Congress of Positive Psychology.
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