Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Valuing others' strengths makes them feel like your own.
- In plain terms
- Appreciate good things in others to share in them.
- What can you take from it?
- Appreciation connects us to excellence.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What do you appreciate in others?
- How does it change you?
Another view
Appreciation does not transfer actual skills.
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