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Kate Blake

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Are you comfortable with praise and thanks?

Do you readily give others praise?

Can you receive praise/compliments gracefully?

and say ‘thank you’ genuinely?

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Closing Statement from Kate Blake

The diversity of responses would indicate that most people are not fully comfortable with praise or thanks ... none of them could satisfactorily explain why.

Which leaves me to wonder if we are more used to criticism and put-downs .. thus making me personally more determined to give more praise and thanks.

Come on give it a go? Feel the warm glow ...

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    Bruno Deshayes

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    Jun 27 2011: People are quick to criticize but slow to acknowledge value. Yet again in a world of failures and depression any good news is worth applauding. People are more likely to act on your behalf rather than praise verbally ie - spreading your testimony, posting it to their social media friends as something worthy of note. As far as receiving thanks with good grace just look at a mom tirelessly caring for her child - a cuddle makes her day.

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