A speaker held up a blank sheet of paper and asked "What do you see:?" The reply was "A piece of blank paper". He then placed on the podium, made a tiny dot on the centre and held it up again. "What do you see now?". A dot was the unanimous reply from the audience.
The speaker then said "Imagine this black paper is a person. The small do you saw is his/her biggest fault. The white background surrounding the dot represents all the person's worthwhile qualities, goodness and beauty in him/her which we so easily fail to see. Didn't you say you saw the dot when i showed you this blank sheet of paper the second time? Do you realize that you focused your attention on that one dot, and completely ignored to say, 'We saw a blank paper on which there is a tiny dot' Often a fault seems bigger that it really is and we allow it to overshadow the many positive aspects of that person's personality. Next time you have an opportunity to assess a person, highlight more of his positive side than his negative side which often times may be quite minute and insignificant comparatively. Learn to see things from a positive angle. A half full cup and a half empty cup maybe the same but the former was quite positive than the later. That should always be the spirit.
well said.
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