Give a Dog a Good Name

"The average person can be led readily if you have his or her respect and if you show that you respect that person for some kind of ability." - Samuel Vauclain

If you want to improve a person in a certain respect, act as though that particular trait were already one of his or her outstanding characteristics. 

"Assume a virtue, if you have it not." - Shakespeare

It might well to assume and state openly that other people have the virtue you want them to develop. Give them a fine reputation to live up to, and they will make prodigious efforts rather than see you disillusioned.

"Give a dog a bad name and you may as well hang him." But give him a good name - and see what happens!

Principle 7: Give the other persona fine reputation to live up to. 

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Nothing is impossible with Him. =D