Posted: Feb 23, 2008, 9:20 PM CST
I can’t prove it’s true, but I choose to believe people treat me the way
I’ve taught them to treat me. This creates a big responsibility for me.
It means that if I don’t like the way someone is treating me, I can alter
their behavior by first changing my own. I can have a positive influence
on the situation. Since I have, by my behavior, taught them to treat me
the way they are treating me, I can often, by changing my behavior,
teach them to treat me differently. If I want them to change, I must
change first. It is a basic psychological teaching that if we want to
change the way we feel, we must first change the way we act.
-- You Can't Make Me Angry, Dr. Paul O.