Quick Cut: S2E197 Principles for Better Living
It's a Good Life
Brian Buffini
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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In our world today, good manners and civility are on the decline. Too often, people’s attitudes and behavior towards others leave a lot to be desired. But there is a more enjoyable and satisfying way to live! In this episode, Brian explains how committing to the three principles of courtesy, respect and hospitality will make life better for you and everyone around you. If you want to live an uncommon life and have uncommon success as a result, this podcast is for you!
Inspirational quotes from today’s interview
“Common courtesy is not common practice.”—Brian Buffini
“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”—Theodore Roosevelt
“Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing and conveys much.”—Erastus Wiman
“Courtesy is a small act, but it packs a mighty wallop.”—Lewis Carroll
“Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.”—Clarence Thomas
“I believe that good manners are more important than a Harvard education.”—Brian Buffini
“I speak to everyone the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”—Albert Einstein
“Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.”—William Feather
“When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you’re making a commitment and difference in that person’s life.”—Zig Ziglar
“Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, that’s what brings happiness.”—Harold Kushner
“Generosity has nothing to do with your current economic state. It has to do with an attitude of the mind and an attitude of the spirit.”—Brian Buffini
“Being generous is one of the things that has made me a fortune.”—Brian Buffini
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Baffini, founder of America's largest business coaching company. |
| 0:10.0 | Here's a short classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes. |
| 0:15.0 | And we're going to talk today about three principles to make life better for you and those around you. We're going to talk about |
| 0:23.6 | courtesy, we're going to talk about respect, and we're going to talk about |
| 0:26.8 | hospitality. Now as much as we live in a technologically advanced world and a |
| 0:32.1 | more socially connected world at least electronically. |
| 0:35.7 | I think we can all agree on one thing for sure. |
| 0:38.3 | Courtesy and respect and hospitality might be at an all-time low and people notice it. |
| 0:44.5 | 91% of teens say that civility, manners and etiquette are either very important |
| 0:50.3 | or important in their lives. 70% of these teenagers feel society as a whole |
| 0:55.8 | displays more bad manners than good manners. |
| 0:58.9 | 92% of these kids said they felt that social media, Facebook and Twitter is making us a less civil society. |
| 1:05.6 | Why? |
| 1:06.6 | Because you can say extremely critical and crude things to one another without a sense of accountability. Students ranked family upbringing as the |
| 1:15.0 | number one factor for its impact on civility and so we have to understand again we |
| 1:21.2 | bear some responsibility in this for those of us that are parents and |
| 1:23.9 | grandparents when asked where they learn bad manners the top three ranking |
| 1:28.4 | answers were number one 70% media books and movies, 65% from school and 61% from their friends. |
| 1:37.7 | And so they're picking up bad habits all over the place as kids. they want the families to hold the line. |
| 1:45.1 | And so what's happened is we have some failed parenting strategies going on right now, which |
| 1:48.1 | is we're giving the kids what they want. |
| 1:49.8 | We're not holding the line. |
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