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Freedom: Give Others The Credit They Deserve
The first step, give yourself the credit you deserve. Be happy for yourself and others. Join the conversation.
Give yourself credit for your small and big wins.
Why can humans not give others the credit they deserve? Are we so self-centered that we cannot see anything good in people we do not like or have things in common?
I keep asking myself these questions every time I get together with people. I am not a saint, but often, I look at a person I do not party with and give credit when it is due.
I did not party with Trump, but I gave him credit for winning an election that was not supposed to be close. At seventy, the man crisscrossed PA and WA while my people crisscrossed stores for new window treatments.
Come on, give Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson credit for her experience and qualifications. She is a family woman with two parents watching her confirmation hearing and her husband, a surgeon, crying for the mistreatment of his wife of many years.
Although several years in a marriage does not tell us the whole story, it is something…
