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Do Dale Carnegie Principles Work on the Internet

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elte Offline
I think that was a neat idea having her ride along.
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Carol Offline
(Jul 26, 2017 12:40 AM)confused2 Wrote: Some years ago (almost exactly 18) I used deliver things around the county of Devon (in the Uk). If I had time and it was somewhere nice I'd ring my mother up and ask her if she'd like to come - she always wanted to come. During one outing, in passing conversation, she mentioned "You get pleasure out of giving pleasure." In a theatrical world I'd have stopped the car and asked her why (the hell) she hadn't said that before like when I was 12 instead of 45.

Because we don't know such things or think they are important until we get old.  Oh, we can know them as a nice thought, or maybe a fact that someone said, a popular thing that people say, but we don't really know until we get old.  When we are young, we accumulate facts.  When we old we feel the meaning of those words.  Real knowing is multi level experience, not just a memorization of facts.   This thought needs to go with CC's post about dying people being positive.  

In the past, we thought age 30 was still youth and we respected our elders and deferred to them.  With education for technology came youth worshipping and devaluing older people as old fashioned and out dated.  To some of us, this cultural transition looks like a transition from civilization to barbarism.   History and constant warring was for young people, elders look for a way to resolve problems or avoid them.   (Unless they are old men wanting power and then they can be treacherous and cruelly send the young to fight their wars, with all the power and glory going to old man and ruined lives for the people). I love the perceptive history gives us on such matters.

PS the bible does say, do unto others as you have done to you. In India, such a thought is presented as karma. Or in the Hippie days, we said "what comes around goes around". Did anyone catch the public TV station documentary on the Hippies in San Francisco? It began as such an idealistic movement and turned bad as young people came for an adventure and drugs and without a good understanding of life and survival. The lessons can be all around us, but we don't always recognize them. It can be hard for a 14-year-old to understand what thinking of others has to do with getting what one wants. Smile, I think some members of forums have a hard time understanding that too.
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