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by ben_w 2930 days ago
> but I certainly don't have to praise all emerging experiments just to sound polite, do I?

Speaking from personal experience, I have found it vastly more productive to focus on the good than the bad. Yes, even in situations where the other person is literally [1] too dumb to put their underwear on correctly without assistance.

I don’t know how or why it works to do that, but it does, and the improvement from doing so is immense.

[1] Alzheimer’s.