A 4-Step Strategy to Develop Any Quality You Want
It has helped me develop every quality I’ve ever admired.
What we really mean when we say we admire someone is that we admire some quality of theirs.
Qualities form the crux of our character and dictate what we think and how we act. The good news is that qualities aren’t only innate as most think but can also be developed.
“Every good quality I possess I’ve stolen from someone I’ve admired.”
In other words, our “nature” can be changed. This is primarily thanks to the sheer plasticity and flexibility of the human brain. As John B Watson famously said,
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take anyone at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select — doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and, yes, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.
You don’t have to be stuck admiring someone, you can become that person itself. Every good quality I possess I’ve stolen from someone I’ve admired and the same strategy has helped me every single time.
