From: Jake Davis
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 7:36 AM
To: MavideaAll
Subject: Daily Attitude Email 11 1 11

In an audiobook I was listening to recently the author mentioned that he had come up with a rule he called the 18, 40, 60 rule.

When you are 18, you care deeply about what everyone thinks about you.

When you are 40, you don’t care at all what people think of you.

When you are 60, you realize that those other people weren’t thinking about you at all.

It seems to me that part of being successful is an odd combination of not caring what others think about you and empathy. We need to simultaneously be our own person who is confident and full of energy about our own goals while being able to put ourselves in the other persons shoes in every social interaction.

Think about how this applies to you:

Do you worry about what others think about you?

Do you have a hard time putting yourself in someone else’s shoes?

Do you spend during conversations with others wondering what you will say next and what they think of the last thing you said?

I know that I personally struggle with this. Ever since I heard about this “rule”, I have said it in my head many times as a reminder that I must train myself to think of others first.

I hope that all of you make it a great day today.

Jake