{"id":272,"date":"2018-08-11T13:25:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T13:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadingachildrenshospital.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2020-01-04T13:39:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T13:39:45","slug":"a-short-course-on-human-relations-slightly-expanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadingachildrenshospital.com\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"A short course on human relations slightly expanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An old poster some still have on their office wall called &#8220;<em>A Short Course in Human Relations&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0goes like this:<\/p>\n<p>The SIX most important words: \u00a0&#8220;I admit I made a mistake\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FIVE most important words: \u00a0&#8220;You did a good job\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FOUR most important words: \u00a0&#8220;What is your opinion\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The THREE most important words: \u00a0&#8220;If you please\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The TWO most important words: \u00a0&#8220;Thank you\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ONE most important word: \u00a0&#8220;We\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>LEAST\u00a0<\/em>most important word: \u00a0<em>&#8220;I\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In my searches to find the origin, I came across a blog that told a story from the 1980s. \u00a0The author first saw the poster on her boss\u2019 office wall. \u00a0The boss noticed she was studying it and said, \u201cYou know that\u2019s not the whole course. \u00a0There is also the <em>SEVEN<\/em>\u00a0most important words, \u2018I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019ll find out.\u2019 \u00a0Now you know the complete course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What keeps people from saying these phrases and practicing their intent? \u00a0 Perhaps they aren&#8217;t telling themselves the EIGHT most important words: \u201cI have the courage to say these words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now you know the\u00a0complete revised course. \u00a0Here it is again:<\/p>\n<p>The EIGHT most important words: \u00a0\u201cI have the courage to say these words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The SEVEN most important words: \u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t know, but I\u2019ll find out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The SIX most important words: \u00a0&#8220;I admit I made a mistake\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FIVE most important words: \u00a0&#8220;You did a good job\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FOUR most important words: \u00a0&#8220;What is your opinion\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The THREE most important words: \u00a0&#8220;If you please\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The TWO most important words: \u00a0&#8220;Thank you\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ONE most important word: \u00a0&#8220;We\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>LEAST\u00a0<\/em>most important word: \u00a0<em>&#8220;I\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old poster some still have on their office wall called &#8220;A Short Course in Human Relations&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0goes like this: The SIX most important words: \u00a0&#8220;I admit I made a mistake\u201d The FIVE most important words: \u00a0&#8220;You did a good job\u201d The FOUR most important words: \u00a0&#8220;What is your opinion\u201d The THREE most important words: \u00a0&#8220;If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadingachildrenshospital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadingachildrenshospital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadingachildrenshospital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadingachildrenshospital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadingachildrenshospital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/leadingachildrenshospital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/leadingachildrenshospital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadingachildrenshospital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadingachildrenshospital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadingachildrenshospital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}