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Thought Tweet #853.5

by Rick Baker
On Oct 23, 2013

Thought Tweet #853.5 If you cannot be interested at least be interesting.

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Seek first to be interested and to understand. If you cannot handle that maybe you can compensate by being entertaining...or, at least, interesting.

Stephen Covey - Seek First To Understand.

Perhaps people will warm up to you and remember you if you seek first to understand them?

That's consistent with Dale Carnegie's teaching.

If you cannot bring yourself to be truly interested in understanding other people then your opportunities for influencing them drop significantly. You may be able to squeeze in some opportunities by:

  • being interesting...attention-getting, magnetic...those sorts of things
  • being entertaining...like a motivational speaker or a magician or a clown act

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Communication: Improving Communication | Influencing | Thought Tweets

Thought Tweet #853

by Rick Baker
On Oct 23, 2013

Thought Tweet #853 Using talent and venting strengths...that’s self-expression at its best.


The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Talents + Opportunities + Specialized Knowledge + Practiced Skills = Personal Strengths

Venting our Personal Strengths - that's 'people-excellence'.

 

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STRENGTHS: People-Focused for Success | Thought Tweets

Thought Tweet #852.5

by Rick Baker
On Oct 22, 2013

Thought Tweet #852.5 People criticize themselves sparingly. They expect no more from you. 

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

I love double entendre.

I'm not so keen on criticism.

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Criticism: Constructive Criticism is an Oxymoron | Thought Tweets

Thought Tweet #852

by Rick Baker
On Oct 22, 2013

Thought Tweet #852 For one reason or another we human beings were born with egos...so be it...don't fight it...live & learn with it.


The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Egos - Can't live with them; can't live without them.

Egos - life's biggest challenges.

 

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Beyond Business | Thought Tweets

Thought Tweet #851.5

by Rick Baker
On Oct 21, 2013

Thought Tweet #851.5 If that task was done 80 percent as well as you could do it, compliment the doer.

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet 

That makes for a nice Rule of Thumb.

Also, a Rule of Thumb like that forces you to stop and think before you criticize and kill spirit.

Compliment the doer - the thoughts may or may not count...the actions always count.

Complimenting a person - that's an action that counts.

Thought Tweet #851

by Rick Baker
On Oct 21, 2013

Thought Tweet #851 You can't teach an old dog new tricks...unless, perhaps, you praise him enthusiastically...and feed him the meat he craves.


The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Sometimes old sayings go too far.

If you can teach yourself some new tricks then you can teach old dogs new tricks.

 

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Change: Creating Positive Change | Humour | Thought Tweets

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