Hello,
Roy Masters Speaking
Well,
I think I've got a little break. Pick up the phone. Call several friends
immediately, because I want people to listen to this. It's going to be hard on
you — it's going to hurt you — so get ready for a real shock. OK?
I'm
going to read from a little pamphlet that I prepared for you today. It's not
pretty, but I am your friend, and I believe your friends are allowed to be
blunt with you. They will tell you things that your enemies won't tell you.
Your enemies will merely butter you up, and tell you what a sweet nice person
you are, and continue to feed on your stupidity.
All
right, businessmen, all right, mothers and fathers, here goes. Most people are
dedicated to the process of devising ways to get something out of someone, such
as more work from employees, more love and appreciation from families.
Do you
think this is right, to motivate people to get more out of them? To exact the
love that should come from them naturally? Well, I tell you NO, that you're really
murdering them. You motivational experts, you're killing the people.
You
mothers and fathers that motivate your children to be good, you're killing
them, because if you had love, you could not do what you are doing. But since
you don't have love, you refuse to see what you are doing. You're blind. You
can't see it.
The
time you spend trying to figure out how to get something out of someone else
could be all the time you need to bring forth your own good. We do a great deal
of harm to ourselves and to others by these insane practices. Supposing you do
succeed in compelling, or obligating, someone to love, give, or do some job of
work for you. You feel proud of that, don't you?
Well,
let me show you what you're taking pride in, because you don't see the grave
implications. No. Foolishness is not seen right away. It takes time to reveal
itself. First, in motivating others: factory workers, your own children — I
don't care who it is — your husband or your wife — whoever it is, you are
making him function before his time.
You are making him dependent on being
pushed. You have robbed him of his grace of offering, and he will hate you for
it, even as he becomes dependent on your unloving pressure. So you push him
more and more, and he needs to be pushed more and more.
Obligating
and pressuring others is a great injustice to them and to yourself. If you
succeed in your motivating tactics, because of your impatience and lack of
love, you may feel a sense of accomplishment, and the satisfaction you feel
will prod you to more of the same obnoxious behavior.
You will be quite
oblivious to your own wrongdoing. Your victim will respond more and more, as
he will lack the virtue to resist you correctly; otherwise, you could not have
succeeded with him in the beginning. The result is two very frustrated people: one,
dependent on being pushed, never able to function out of his own understanding;
the other, going insane with schemes to motivate his brother.
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