My Thoughts About Success: Something New Happens Whenever You Choose To

byUtuku

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2 years ago

Reading “How to Win Friends and Influence People” I have come to realize that in any relationship, whenever someone decides not to criticize or condemn or complain, something significant and new happens to that relationship.

In the Scenario in the text, Bob Hoover is an expert pilot. It so happens one day that a young man services his airplane. He mistakenly put jet fuel instead of gasoline.

This results to some malfunctioning of the system but Hoover manages to crash land safely.

This could have easily led to his death. The young man was already death with fear for what his mistake has caused. But Hoover, who had a thousand and more reasons to criticize, condemn, or complain, choose not to.

By the time Hoover returned to base, the young man was crying. But what Hoover said to him becomes a healing balm to his battered ego.

He had a reason and the chance to correct his mistake by taking extra care when servicing Hover’s plane.

In fact that was exactly what Hoover told him. ‘To show you I am sure that you will never do this again (mistake), I want you to service my F-51 tomorrow’.

Something new happens. The young man has a second chance. This cements a cordial relationship with a strong bond.

When Benjamin Franklin declares “I will speak ill of no man” a new relational horizon opens for him. He was so adroit in diplomatic exploits that he became one outstanding politician in the anal of American political history.

Something new usually happens.

The implication is that apart from the business perspective, we have a life laboratory to experiment this concept- our family.

If we can resolve and follow through this in our families to the level where we cannot criticize, condemn, or complain, definitely something new will happen in our families.

And when you succeed at the family front, what is there to stop you again?