Find Three Good Qualities In A Stranger (exercise 6)

This is a fun little game you can do alone or together with your friends.

Find three positive qualities in a person you don’t know anything about.

‘That man in front of you in the train’

‘That woman walking on the other side of the street’

‘That child on the swing’

With time, try to also do this with people who looks angry, or with someone you normally would find disagreeable just by taking a glance at them.

Do not just make it up lightly, try to feel it, try to sense it… what three positive qualities could this person possess?

Example:

“He is a good listener. He is passionate about helping animals. He knows how to make his wife smile.”

You may not even know if he has a wife or not, but perhaps you just ‘sensed’ it?

It doesn’t matter if you are right or wrong about what you sense, what matters is that you learn to think positive about people you don’t know, so you train yourself to always think the best of a person.

Note: this is not a clairvoyance exercise, it just makes it more real and fun when you feel you could actually be right.


Work with this exercise every day for 1-3 weeks, then move on to the next exercise.
When you begin working with a new exercise, don't forget to also once in a while use the other exercises you've already worked with.


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