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Jen Sincero You Are a Badass How

8. LOVE YOURSELF
And everybody benefits.


CHAPTER 14:
GRATITUDE: THE GATEWAY DRUG TO
AWESOMENESS
When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.
—Anthony Robbins; author, speaker, motivator, life-changer
When I was a little kid, my parents made my brothers and sister and I answer
the phone in this very formal way, “Jennifer Sincero speaking,” as if, between
fighting over who got to play with the Big Wheel and stuffing balloons down
our  pants,  we  were  all  running  our  own  private  concierge  businesses.  Their
friends would gush on the other end of the phone about what a polite bunch the
Sincero  kids  were,  and  I  thought  nothing  of  it  until  the  day  I  made  my  very
first phone call to a friend, and, upon hearing her answer, gripped the phone in
wide-eyed disbelief. You get to say “Hello?” Do your parents know?! It was as
unthinkable to me at the time as saying the F-word or sitting down to join my
parents for a glass of scotch.
My amazement quickly turned to horror when I realized it wasn’t just that
one  renegade  friend  who  could  answer  the  phone  in  such  a  carefree  manner,
but everyone, and that my parents were clearly playing some big practical joke
on us. Our objections were met with the standard, “When you pay your own


phone  bill  you  can  answer  it  any  way  you  like.”  So  the  years  passed,  our
indignation slowly getting watered down by habit.
I don’t remember exactly when the mutiny happened, but eventually we all
started answering the phone like normal human beings. I’m going to assume it
was around the time of their divorce, when Mom had all four of us mostly to
herself,  either  in,  or  hovering  around,  high  school,  and  phone  rules  got
bulldozed in her switch to combat mode.
The demand for manners in general, however, was left firmly standing, and
no  matter  how  wild  and  wasted  we  got,  we  always  remained  those  polite
Sincero kids: “Can I help you Officer? Thank you, Officer. Yes, sir, that is my
marijuana.” Not only are the words “please” and “thank you” ingrained in me
like the recipe for my Italian father’s red sauce or the knowledge that it’s not
cool to kill people, but being polite just always seemed to be such a no-brainer.
Aside  from  the  fact  that  it  makes  you  feel  like  a  good  person,  people  will
usually do what you ask them to do if you’re nice about it, and if you’re not,
they won’t. Hello? Which is why it completely baffles me when anyone over
the  age  of  five  is  rude,  and  especially  when  they  refrain  from  the  thank-you
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