{"id":19,"date":"2010-12-04T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tojoeapen.com\/blog\/important-common-truths-from-life-strategies\/"},"modified":"2016-12-24T07:23:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T07:23:29","slug":"important-common-truths-from-life-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/important-common-truths-from-life-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Common Truths from ‘Life Strategies’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m currently reading the book Life Strategies<\/em> by Dr. Phil McGraw. Thought this would be useful food for thought:<\/p>\n

“The ten most significant common characteristics fundamental to human functioning I have identified are:<\/p>\n

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  1. The number-one fear among all people is rejection.<\/li>\n
  2. The number-one need among all people is acceptance.<\/li>\n
  3. To manage people effectively, you must do it in a way that protects or enhances their self-esteem.<\/li>\n
  4. Everybody approaches every situation with at least some concern about “What’s in it for me?”<\/li>\n
  5. Everybody prefers to talk about things that are important to them personally.<\/li>\n
  6. People hear and incorporate only what they understand.<\/li>\n
  7. People like trust, and believe those who like them.<\/li>\n
  8. People often do things for other than the apparent reasons.<\/li>\n
  9. Even people of quality, can be, and often are, petty and small.<\/li>\n
  10. Everybody wears a social mask. You must look beyond the mask to see the person.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’m currently reading the book Life Strategies by Dr. Phil McGraw. Thought this would be useful food for thought: “The ten most significant common characteristics fundamental to human functioning I have identified are: The number-one fear among all people is rejection. The number-one need among all people is acceptance. To manage people effectively, you must […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}