People are Never To Young or Dumb

…to understand what they want.

Harold Jarche has written a post I had wished I had written Shape Pattern, Not Programs. Not so much in terms of envy, but timing. I have been developing People are Never To Young or Dumb for a week or so. I was waiting for the perfect anchor. Then I stumbled upon his post. Read on.

My comment on his post: “This post is perfect as written. Milan, we can not solve problems at the level they were created (Einstein paraphrase. No accuracy correction needed.) What I got from it is what I have been telling parents like me for several years even before I had children of our own. It’s not a child’s responsibility (parent criteria & “They are not little machines waiting to be directed by higher headquarters. “) to obey. It’s not even on their intellectual radar. So don’t work against the grain, go with it. Now, I can’t tell you the long term effects as I am not that wise in years, yet, but what I do know is a child is never too young or dumb to know what they want. Therefore utilize this. Find what they want and leverage it. It makes life for everyone so much easier and constructive.”

I’ll give you a specific example. If you find that your child wants to wear a certain outfit, use this. You’re trying to get out the door to work and say, “come on, let’s go. I’m gonna be late.” Guess what? They don’t care. Nor should they.

What they do care about is wearing their choice of clothes. So use this. Say, “Johnny, do you want to wear your Bob the Buider underwear?” Yes. “Then get out of bed, fix your eggs and toast, find your driver’s license, and be ready to go when I’m walking out the door in 10 minutes.” It’s funny, but it really is this easy when you get the hang of it. Remember to return the favor, when effective.

Back to people’s “wants” mindset. Freud’s cousin’s PR war supports this fully. This is part 1 of 2. Remenber, though, while watching this that I didn’t invent or conceive this idea, I just found it (a week ago. #ambiguity)

Once, again, people are never to young or dumb to to understand what they want. Of course, it’s not always what they need, but that’s another whole blog post.

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Zig Ziglar revived this thinking inadvertantly, maybe, with “you can get what you want if you can help enough other people get what they want.”

People are never too young or dumb to understand their wants. -Jade Handy #sbns #simpletruth

**Special thanks to @mikesansone, @drewmclellan and @tobydiva for helping rid me of my arbitrary concept of sandbagging and rationing my posts to 1 per day. I distinctly remember this post’s points implicitly implied by them. They’re worth it. #alliteration #ambiguity