She believes it and she acts from her new paradigm, to the initial dismay of everyone else in her life. Little by little, she begins to change her life-style. It goes down into her true nature, her potential, and she starts to respond.
He makes continual deposits of unconditional love and gradually penetrates her scripting. She writes him off as a wild-eyed fantasizer. He gives her a new name-Dulcinea-a new name associated with a new paradigm.Īt first, she utterly denies it her old scripts are overpowering. He also sees her virtue, and he affirms it, over and over again. She’s being validated in her life-style by all of the people in her life.īut this poet knight sees something else in her, something beautiful and lovely. It’s a beautiful story about a medieval knight who meets a woman of the street, a prostitute. Perhaps you are familiar with the musical Man of La Mancha. You don’t absolve them of responsibility you encourage them to be proactive. You listen to them and empathize with them. What if you were a positive scripter, an affirmer, of other people? When they’re being directed by the social mirror to take the lower path, you inspire them toward a higher path because you believe in them. In the following section he talks about something akin to imputation-the act of attributing to someone a trait not otherwise natural to themselves.Īt some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn’t believe in yourself. Can anything good come from the self help genre? To my surprise, yes, especially this excerpted section below on “Scripting Others” from Habit 7: Sharpening the Saw (basically, self care). Covey’s classic, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Despite my instincts to steer clear of self help literature, I recently read Stephen R.
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