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Thank you. Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host, Sean Croxton and Sean Croxton.com.

We got Brian Tracy on the show today. I'm your host Sean Croxton and Sean Croxton.com. We got Brian

Tracy on the show today. Today, Brian is going to talk about destructive criticism during

childhood and the two negative habit patterns that it can lead to when we're adults. Brian Tracy's

coming up. Now, very early in life as a mistake or as the result of mistakes that parents make an upbringing,

children begin to learn just negative habit patterns. And negative habit patterns have their root

primarily in destructive criticism. Destructive criticism begins very early in life, sometimes in the first few months,

and destructive criticism is used by parents to direct and control their children.

Unfortunately, it has a very, very dangerous and damaging effect on children in that destructive criticism begins to undermine the integrity of the child's personality,

and more of us, including myself and including most of you, have been undermined and hurt by destructive criticism,

probably more than all the wars in history.

Now, as a result of destructive criticism,

we begin to develop negative habit patterns. Negative habit patterns are conditioned responses

to stimuli. Negative habit patterns develop very early in life. They're developed as a result

of a repetition of fear and pain over and over again.

They're developed as the result of destructive criticism, physical punishment, and so on.

Very early in life, we begin to develop two major manifestations which follow us throughout our lives

and more than anything else inhibit our potential as adults.

The first is what is called the inhibitive negative habit pattern.

The inhibitive negative habit pattern is learned when the child is told over and over again,

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