Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

ACCEPT PEOPLE THE WAY THEY ARE
Especially, honesty means that you accept people the way they are,
not demanding that they be the way you want. You do not go
through life wishing, hoping, and expecting that people will change
and be different so as to suit you. One of the basic principles of hu-
man life is that, with few exceptions,
people don’t change
.
In fact, under pressure, people not only do not change, but they
become even more of what they already are inside. If a person has a
difficult personality, under pressure he will become even more diffi-
cult. If someone is stubborn or inflexible, when she is put under
pressure she will become even more stubborn and inflexible. If a
person is slightly dishonest, when he is subjected to pressure or
temptation he will become totally dishonest. People don’t change.
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