Anonymous
8/25/2025, 4:55:13 AM
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>>82291967
>>82292865
In addition, an even more advanced form of this is not just to provide a compliment but actually call them by a positive identity. People crave to have an identity, and despair being assigned negative identities. To affirm their identity or give them a positive identity from something they have done is a more powerful application of the rule.
To reapply this to the car repair example. You might not only compliment their skills with tools you would further actually assert that they ARE a great mechanic. That is a more effective and higher form of praise. You see this even in children. When you want a child to help out around the house, it's ill advised to say "can you help me put the dishes away?" what you're actually advised to say is "Can you be a helper?" Syntactically and in terms clarity and literary style it's an inferior sentence. In rhetorical practice, people are MUCH more enthusiastic in responding to being called a helper than being asked to help.
>>82292865
In addition, an even more advanced form of this is not just to provide a compliment but actually call them by a positive identity. People crave to have an identity, and despair being assigned negative identities. To affirm their identity or give them a positive identity from something they have done is a more powerful application of the rule.
To reapply this to the car repair example. You might not only compliment their skills with tools you would further actually assert that they ARE a great mechanic. That is a more effective and higher form of praise. You see this even in children. When you want a child to help out around the house, it's ill advised to say "can you help me put the dishes away?" what you're actually advised to say is "Can you be a helper?" Syntactically and in terms clarity and literary style it's an inferior sentence. In rhetorical practice, people are MUCH more enthusiastic in responding to being called a helper than being asked to help.