On Sunday 13 January 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 13 January 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > A poorly developed sense of how to deal with other people coupled > > with never having realised that people are not machines, do not > > react like machines and need to be handled differently. You > > maintain machines by focusing on what is wrong with them and > > changing that. You handle people by focusing on what they do right > > and reinforcing that. > > > > I used to do what Ciaran does, and I used to do it a *lot*. Lucky > > for me, one day someone came along with a very big stick and > > hammered it through my thick skull that there is a better way. > > And thus focused on what you were doing wrong. <grin>
hehehe, spoken like a true African - direct, blunt and to the point :-) The technique worked though! -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
