twenty-sixth.

principles learned:
• if there is anything in a person that is lovely, praiseworthy, or of good report, let them know you recognize it!
• recognize the good in people—try to ignore the bad.

apply these principles:
• don’t be afraid to give compliments
• instead of even realizing the bad and trying to ignore it, try not to even recognize it. look so positively into people that all i am able to see is the goodness

teach: to james

report:
when i shared with james the idea of ignoring the bad in people and acknowledging the good, his response was that everyone doing so would result in an unrealistic world. he said if we ignore in the bad in people then we would trust those we shouldn't trust and that would cause more problems. i recognized then that we are not to completely ignore the bad in people, rather we should forgive them of their weaknesses and concentrate on their strengths, and turning their weaknesses into strengths.