I’m going to be posting from the free book called, ‘How To Win Friends And Influence People’ from 1937. It has reportedly been read and used by trump. Here is the excerpt explaining this concept from the first chapter, pg. 25:
You will find examples of the futility of criticism bristling on a thousand pages of history. Take, for example, the famous quarrel between Theodore Roosevelt and President Taft – a quarrel that split the Republican party, put Woodrow Wilson in the White House, and wrote bold, luminous lines across the First World War and altered the flow of history. Let’s review the facts quickly. When Theodore Roosevelt stepped out of the White House in 1908, he supported Taft, who was elected President. Then Theodore Roosevelt went off to Africa to shoot lions. When he returned, he exploded. He denounced Taft for his conservatism, tried to secure the nomination for a third term himself, formed the Bull Moose party, and all but demolished the G.O.P. In the election that followed, William Howard Taft and the Republican party carried only two states – Vermont and Utah. The most disastrous defeat the party had ever known.
Theodore Roosevelt blamed Taft, but did President Taft blame himself? Of course not. With tears in his eyes, Taft said: ‘I don’t see how I could have done any differently from what I have.’
Who was to blame? Roosevelt or Taft? Frankly, I don’t know, and I don’t care. The point I am trying to make is that all of Theodore Roosevelt’s criticism didn’t persuade Taft that he was wrong. It merely made Taft strive to justify himself and to reiterate with tears in his eyes: ‘I don’t see how I could have done any differently from what I have.’
This is a voting community. Please give your opinions on if it’s wise or unwise. Reasons behind it are welcome.
Is it:
“Mmm no very unwise”
or
“Mmm very wise”
Would have read it if you made the wisdom yourself, but, because you didn’t, I did not bother reading more than the headline. Also im not following community voting rules cuz I’m a rebel.
‘we’ must clearly not include ‘me’.
Some rebelious beings actually enjoy doing what is met by disapproval. It’s like a personality type.
but beyond that,
It has to do with groups and among, for example, right wing patriarchal antilgbtq people, were i to find approval i would think i was doing something wrong; and i would feel much more comfortable with disapproval.
