Platinum beats gold

Written by Jim Chaput

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After a 19-year career in financial services, Jim left a leadership position to focus on health and fitness. Jim is a Master Practitioner of Applied Movement Neurology and holds Certificates in Applied Functional Science and 3DMAPS from the Gray Institute. His passion is empowering people to help resolve the pain, tension and insomnia that prevents them from living well.

I used to believe the golden rule was the standard for treating others well. Recently, I have been reading about an even better way to behave, the platinum rule: “Treat others how they need to be treated.”

If you’re not sure how someone needs to be treated, the golden rule is a good place to start. From there, ask the person what they need and do your best to accommodate that.

Do you want people to treat you how they want to be treated or how you need to be treated?

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2 Comments

Pat on June 13, 2020 at 1:21 pm

WOW… Good one!!
I will make that change; amazing after all these years!!
- Jim Chaput on June 14, 2020 at 10:25 am
  
  I know, right? It is one of those things that was hard to spot, then seems obvious in hindsight.