“Bringing Out the Best in People” Chapter 3 summary A Tailor-Made Plan of Motivation In this chapter McGinnis talks about a theory from Thomas Aquinos. The principle of Aquinos theory is to motivate other individuals andto get them to see your point of view. To accomplish this‚ you try to guide the person; don’t call them harsh words out their name or give them demanding orders‚ just start with them gently to get them to make progress and open up with you. In order to motivate someone‚ you must
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and yet similar characters. We have “Good Country People” and “A Good Man is Hard to Find”‚ both containing people who have trouble being true to themselves and lying to others. Who says that a good plotline is the most important element for a great piece of literature when you have manipulative and hypocritical characters to cause drama and suspense? The grandmother from “A Good Man is Hard to Find”‚ the salesman and Hulga from “Good Country People” are prime examples of people who exhibit duplicity
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His gospel through prophets in all eras of time. In my youth I enjoyed learning about different cultures‚ religions‚ and philosophies. Frequently I would see how the things I had learned as a child were reflected in the practices and beliefs of people very different from myself. I could see simple truths become evident not only in things explained by tradition‚ science‚ or logic‚ but also by means that could not be explained. I had begun my journey of living by faith. As I try to develop my
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The world is full of conflict and that is why there is always a war in the history. Every human being views the world in a unique fashion. “No two persons regard the world in exactly the same way…” was once said by J.W. von Goethe. Our decisions and interpretations to conflicts are all get based on our own particular experiences‚ perspectives‚ personality and cultural backgrounds. People have different motivations‚ beliefs‚ values and goals. Although we often share similar experience‚ we look at
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In Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Good Country People” the protagonist‚ Joy‚ had mutual characteristics with each of the characters. Her and Mrs. Hopewell were both naïve to Manely Pointer’s true personality. Joy and Mrs. Freeman were both very serious people. Last her and Manely Pointer are both illusive‚ but for different reasons. Each charcter’s life was told in the third person point of view‚ which leads to the mystery behind the story. Joy‚ or Hulga’s‚ point of view is third person limited
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It is the encounter with conflict which brings out the courage or cowardice in a person “Flight or fight” is an oft-quoted summary of one’s reaction to conflict‚ whether mental or physical. But it is an instinctive behaviour which words such as “courage” and “cowardice” do little to accurately describe‚ as these loaded with emotional connotations. We usually regard ‘courage’ as a positive virtue‚ and ‘cowardice’ as a negative flaw; in these sematic spaces “fighting” is also positive‚ and “fleeing”
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PEOPLE WITH SIMILAR PERSONALITIES MAKE THE BEST FRIENDS Have you ever had a friend? Do you think your friendship would be everlasting? Well‚ everybody has had friends. Friends are who always beside us; share the joy or the sadness with us. But‚ do people with similar personalities make the best friends? I don’t think so! First‚ if we have friends with different personalities‚ we could learn something new about ourselves and about the others. You would never know what you really best at
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transitions of immigrating. This is a very hard process to go through and requires finding a new place to settle. The character Ha in Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai‚ faced all of these while having to flee her home in Vietnam because of war. In another text called World of Difference Benefit Luncheon‚ a boy explains his struggles of fleeing his country and finding a new one. In Inside Out & Back Again‚ Ha flees her home in haste when the war comes closer to her home. Soon their president left them
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------------------------------------------------- People should be encouraged to get out of their cars and find other ways to travel Deep in the past‚ people often had to reach their destination on foot. Today‚ however‚ we can’t imagine our life without a car and we use it almost everytime when we go somewhere‚ even for really short distances. This fact has its advantages‚ but there are also some negative aspects of using cars. First of all‚ cars are much more comfortable
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EMERGING markets have had a good decade. Rapid growth in China and India has pulled hundreds of millions of people out of poverty‚ sustained expansion has spread from Asia‚ where rapid catch-up has a long history‚ to South America‚ where halting growth and economic retrenchments were more the norm. These impressive expansions survived the recent downturn; while developed economies struggle to find their footing‚ China‚ India‚ and Brazil are closer to overheating. Growth in sub-Saharan Africa has
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