When Complimenting A Friend's Appearance

By withholding the truth to protect someone’s feelings , even with the best intentions, you’re robbing them the opportunity to learn, grow and improve. And without this, they lose personal responsibility for their actions.

So show them you consider them an equal by being candid. Hone...

When people disagree with us we assume they are ignorant … that they lack information. So we try to convince them with information. It seldom works.

• Persuasion appeals to the emotions and to fear and to the imagination. Convincing requires a spreadshee...

If you listen without premature judgment, people will generally tell you their every thought and that’s “truth” in a sense. Because although someone’s memory is not an objective description of the past, it is informative and thus a tool to guide the future.