ABSTRACT

There are a number of attitudes that make it more likely that your encouragement will be effective. You can learn these attitudes. You learn new attitudes by practice. Practice involves action. When you smile, you practice smiling. When you ponder, you practice pondering. When you express your opinion, you practice expressing your opinion. When you pity yourself, you practice self-pity. Because one learns through practice, the more you practice, the greater potential you will have to express any given behavior or attitude. Just think: a musician, speaker, actor, etc., keeps practicing even after she has a near perfect performance.