How to praise the people around you appropriately without sounding like a flatterer

In everyday life, we should learn to appreciate and praise others, and strive to discover their shining points. Take the same tree: some people see the lush greenery filling it; while others see only the caterpillar on the tip of a branch. Why can the same thing produce two completely different results? The reason is that some people know how to appreciate and praise, while others only look at things with a critical, accusing eye. Generously open our hearts, accommodate more of other people's strengths, and plant more happy shade, so that others and ourselves can share the joy and laughter life gives us.

Praise is the sweetest of all sounds, and praise should give a person a sense of beauty. Novel wording is charming and attractive. Simple praise can also be inspiring, but if a praise that was originally quite good is repeated monotonously many times, it will also seem bland and even tiresome. One woman once said that she had already grown weary of others repeatedly telling her she was very beautiful, but when someone told her that a woman with such extraordinary grace as hers should go act in films and leave the world a film print of herself, she smiled.

No matter how pretty or vivid a balloon is, if it is blown up too small it will not look good; if it is blown up too large it will easily burst. Praise is like blowing up a balloon: it should stop at the right point, and moderation is best.