Summary: <p>Listen to episode 131 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Stop Judging People & Accepts Others As They Are. Adapted from the book: “Success Through Thought Habit” by Benjamin Johnson.</p><br> <p><strong><a title="Best Self-Development Podcasts" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org">Self-Help Podcast</a> Excerpt</strong>: <em>Occasionally, we find people so well trained that they never express blame. No, indeed, they would not be so vulgar. They just feel it and think it and keep it corked up inside, never dreaming that every act and every look is showing their state of mind just as well as any words they might use and is making others quite as uncomfortable. </em></p><br> <p><em>A philosopher, who had mastered many of life’s problems and was noted for his poise, was one day asked why he paid no attention to either flattery or ridicule. "Because," he answered, "a person can neither be praised nor insulted. I know what I am, and do not allow the opinion of others to affect me." </em></p><br> <p><em>When asked how he managed to get so much good out of life, and to find so many fine qualities in others, he said: "I have been trained since early youth to look upon human beings as I would on the animals in the forest. Each may be perfect of its kind though utterly unlike some other animal. Consequently, I do not expect the hare to have the courage of the lion, or the fox to be like the deer, or the bear to be as the marmoset. In the farm yards, I know the cow gives milk and is useful for that reason. The oxen have great strength and do their share by hauling heavy loads, while the horses carry us about in comfort. </em></p><br> <p><em>So among my friends I see each has their sphere of usefulness and each is developing according to their capabilities and not according to what I might think or advise, and I am content."</em></p><br> <p><strong>Related Self-Help Podcasts:</strong></p><br> <p><a title="How to Have Empathy" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/sympathy-and-understanding-others/">Sympathy & Understanding Others</a></p><br> <p><a title="Courage, Virtue & Self-Esteem" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/the-inward-life-courage-virtue-self-esteem/">The Inward Life</a></p>
