If and when an angry person starts in to vilify and abuse you, justly or unjustly, it’s your reaction and the retaliation in a like manner where you will either be drawn down to that person’s mental level, or rise above it. If you do fall down to their level, that means that person is dominating you.
On the other hand, if you just refuse to become angry and have that self-composure needed to keep you calm, you will take the other person by surprise. Retaliating with a weapon that the other person is unfamiliar with will catch them off guard and easily dominate them.
Look at the majority of salespeople around the planet. When an angry customer comes in hailing and flailing expletives and adjectives of all kinds, are they going to retaliate in the same manner? Absolutely not. When the outburst subsides, the person who was using vilification will feel like a……douche.
Always remember, like attracts like! There’s no denying this.
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Summary of Self-Control
We’ve learned that our thoughts and actions towards others resemble an electric magnet which attracts to us the same sort of thought and the same sort of action that we, ourselves, create.
We have learned that the human mind responds in kind, to whatever thought impressions it receives. We have learned that kindness begets kindness and unkindness and injustice beget unkindness and injustice.
Easy, huh?
Everything we put out comes back in a much larger measure. We have learned that the human mind responds in kind, to all sensory impressions it receives.
Now it’s time to go into lesson seven which is an extremely critical one – Habit of Doing More Than Paid For.
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