Relationship

What good is knowing, if you can’t do it: Reflecting on the nature of relationships

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We often experience a gap between knowledge and action. Even though we know how to act in a certain situation, we often fail to apply that knowledge in reality. This is not just a personal mistake, but can result in missing important values ​​in human relationships. Today, I would like to share a lesson that can be learned from such an experience.

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• I was invited to a dinner party on February 10th. It was originally a gathering for the group I was serving in. I left that group in January when I moved to another group. However, I was invited to a farewell party for someone who had served with me in my old group, who was about to return home.

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What Carnegie’s Human Relations Theory Taught Us

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Carnegie’s Human Relations Theory tells this story. A friend of his ate a dinner party and argued that the story was not from the Bible but from Shakespeare. He asked his expert friend to agree, but the friend continued the conversation, admitting that the guest was right. When he later asked why, the friend replied: