voice since his call to preach eighteen years before. In fact, he thought that he had to strain his voice in order to sound like a preacher. After all, almost every preacher he ever heard strained his voice, and some of them were great men of God. He presumed good preachers strained their voices and “dry” preachers did not. Following this stereotype guaranteed him a sore throat every Sunday, hoarseness on Monday, and permanent vocal damage by the time he was forty-six years old. His misconceptions