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Confidence Pocketbook
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Confidence Pocketbook

by Gill Hasson
August 2017
Beginner
120 pages
2h 9m
English
Capstone
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GIVING AND TAKING COMPLIMENTS

Marge, you’re as pretty as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda. —Homer Simpson

If someone gives you a compliment, do you accept it and allow it to make you feel good? Or, not wanting to appear immodest, do you brush it off? Perhaps someone’s compliment or praise doesn’t line up with how you see yourself; you’re more comfortable sticking with your own negative beliefs about yourself than accepting that someone else’s positive remarks about you are true.

But not only does rejecting praise not serve you well, it’s rude; you’re telling the other person that they’re wrong. When someone gives you a compliment it’s the same as if they were giving you a gift. Therefore, if you reject the compliment it’s like rejecting ...

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