Be sympathetic with the other person’s ideas and desires

What Everybody Wants

1. Wouldn’t you like to have a magic phrase that would stop arguments, eliminate ill feeling, create good will, and make the other person listen attentively?
2. Here it is: “I don’t blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you do.”
3. Sympathize with people… they are as we would be under similar conditions.
4. There, but for the grace of God, go I
5. Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.
6. Don’t be a fool – control your temper.
7. Apologize, thank the person for pointing out your mistake, sympathize with their point of view, return kindness… and have a jolly good time making the other person like you.
8. “Sympathy the human species craves. The child eagerly displays his injury; or even inflicts a cut or bruises, related their accidents, illness, especially details of surgical operations. ‘Self Pit’ for misfortunes real or imaginary is, in some measure, practically a universal practice.” Dr. Arthur I. Gates Educational Psychology.
9. So if you want to win people to your way of thinking, put in practice… Be sympathetic with the other person’s ideas and desires.