Don’t you feel much more strongly about ideas that you came up with than ideas that are handed to you by others?
If so, why should we try to jam our ideas down other peoples’ throats?
Isn’t it much wiser to make suggestions and let the other person think out the conclusion?
Meaning: Give Your Ideas for Free!
No one likes to feel like they’re being told what to do. We prefer to think independently, have autonomy, and act on our own ideas. We like to be consulted about what we think and what we want.
So how can we use this to our advantage?
When we’re trying to win someone to our way of thinking, we can guide them there – get them halfway or so – and then step back and let them see the idea through to completion.
Take the case of a man named Mr. Wesson, who sold sketches for a design studio. He failed hundreds of times in getting one of the leading New York stylists to buy his sketches. One day, he tried a new approach. He took several incomplete sketches to the stylist and asked how he could finish the designs in such a way that the stylist would find them useful. The stylist offered his ideas, Mr. Wesson had the sketches completed according to the buyer’s ideas, and they were all accepted.
If we’re truly only after the results, why care about the credit?
Why not let someone else take the spotlight, so long as we can achieve what we’re out to get?
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Source & Inspiration: «How to Win Friends & Influence People» (Dale Carnegie, Andrew MacMillan, et al.)
DREIESKIVA|Roald Kvam 
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