Saturday, August 30, 2014

"DO YOU VALIDATE?"

The Ultimate Question 

You're interest in connecting with others will be validated. 

I guarantee it. Please let me know, what you think.

Sincerely,
José Angel Santana

Friday, August 29, 2014

FOR DAILY PRACTICE

“The next time you get into an argument with your wife, or your friend, or with a small group of friends, just stop the discussion for a moment and for an experiment, institute this rule. “Each person can speak up for himself only after he has first restated the ideas and feelings of the previous speaker accurately, and to that speaker’s satisfaction.” You see what this would mean. It would simply mean that before presenting your own point of view, it would be necessary for you to really achieve the other speaker’s frame of reference—to understand his thoughts and feelings so well that you could summarize them for him. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? But if you try it you will discover it is one of the most difficult things you have ever tried to do. However, once you have been able to see the other’s point of view, your own comments will have to be drastically revised.”

- Excerpt from “On Becoming a Person” by Carl Rogers.