The Canter and the Can

Scene: the Head Office. The Vulcan and the Engineer sit at small desks. The Canter and the Shudoff sit properly erect in straight-backed chairs. Others lounge in comfortable chairs.

Networker: We were talking about people with options.
Vulcan: And about people making choices.
Canter: After they decide, they will probably realize they can't do it.
Engineer: They will have to plan. If they plan, they know what they can do.
Canter: And what they can't do.
Storyborder: And what they may be able to do as their powers grow.
Shudoff: The should not count on their powers growing.
Un: Counting does not grow powers.
Canter: Nothing to be done. We can't think of any way to grow powers.
Un: Thinking does not grow powers.
Vulcan: Except the powers of thinking.
Engineer: Doing grows the powers of doing.
Canter: But if you can't do, you fail.
Networker: You can't fail if you learn.
Hunter: Whatever doesn't work is a trial run.
Explorer: A trial run is how you discover your powers.
Engineer: A trial run is how you grow your powers.
Canter: A trial run is how you know what you can't do.
Un: A trial run is how you know what you can do.
Canter: A trial run is how you fail.
Un: If you always succeed you are overqualified for your job.
Empath: A trial run is how people build self-confidence.
Canter: You can't build self-confidence out of failure.
Engineer: The Canters can't. The Engineers can.
Empath: The Engineers know the bounce-back routine.
Un: You do not build self-confidence out of failing. You build self-confidence out of bouncing back.
Engineer: Bounce-back is one of your powers.
Explorer: Only if you know you have it.
Engineer: Only if you know how to call on it.
Un: Only if you have experience with it.
Engineer: Failure is an opportunity to develop your bounce-back powers.
Empath: Failure is an opportunity to know your bounce-back powers.
Canter: You can’t call failure an opportunity. Failure is just failure.
Un: Only to the Canters.
Empath: Everyone has their Canters.
Vulcan: Everyone hears their Canters.
Un: Not everyone listens to their Canters.
Engineer: Everyone has an Engineers. Sometimes people hear their Engineers.
Hunter: Everyone has a Hunter. Sometimes people unleash their Hunters.
Vulcan: It is a choice. The Canter or the Hunter.
Canter: You can’t follow both at once.
Empath: You may not notice the choice.
Vulcan: Unless you are developing self-awareness.
Un: Unless you have learned to hear your head.
Vulcan: Then you will hear them all. You will have to choose.
Un: People will choose anyway. Whether they know it or not.
Vulcan: They can make a better choice if their know what they are choosing.
Un: They will know what they are choosing if they have learned to hear their heads.
Empath: That would be a kind of growth. And something anyone can do.
Un: But some can do better.
Canter: And some can’t do very well.
Empath: Everyone can hear their Canters. That is a skill learned by children.
Canter: And practiced by adults.
Hunter: But ignored by teenagers. They listen to their Hunters.
Shudoff: We should tell people what voices they should listen to.
Un: We do not have that authority. We will tell people how to hear their heads.
Engineer: They can start by clearing their heads.
Un: They can learn to hear the sounds of silence.
Empath: They can hear the many parts of their heads.
Shudoff: We should tell them which ones to listen to.
Vulcan: They will have to choose.
Un: When they are ready.
Organ Music. Voice over: Next month the Un and the Engineer get together on how to hear your head.