Aired May 21st, 2025
I wanna again welcome you to the four zero five Coffee Break. Guys, get you a cup of coffee, glass iced tea, beverage of your choice. Let's see what's happening out there. Spring weight, $5.68 a bushel. 550 pounds steer calf, $3.95.
OK Solberg:Man, that's a lot of money. Take $3.95 times 550. And I hope to shout after the rain, those calves that are weighing two hundred pounds now are on their way to five hundred and fifty pounds times $3.94. A butcher hog in Omaha, Fifty Six Cents a pound. And a hundred pound fat lamb in Billings at $2.14, but guys, there's more, much more.
OK Solberg:Bible first and then more from one of my favorite books by Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People. Guys, I have four favorite books. The Bible, the richest man in Babylon, not necessarily in this order. Okay? And then two books by Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People.
OK Solberg:And his second book, which I read on the beach in Hawaii, and you're supposed to do whatever you want on vacation. Well, I read How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. Great books. They were written long ago, but they're still applicable today. Now our bible verse for the day, Matthew eleven twenty eight through 30.
OK Solberg:Come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me from for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Yep. Guys, we all need comfort sometimes, but we can also give comfort when we learn about people.
OK Solberg:Listen, as I quote, from How to Win Friends and Influence People. The late John Wanamaker once confessed, I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence. Wannamaker learned this lesson early, but I personally had to blunder through this whole world for a third of a century before it even began to dawn upon me that 99 times out of a hundred, no man ever criticizes himself for anything, no matter how wrong he may be. Criticism is futile.
OK Solberg:Criticism is futile because it puts a man on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous because it wounds a man's personal pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses his resentment. The German army won't let a soldier file a complaint and make a criticism immediately after a thing has happened, he has to sleep on his grudge first and cool off. If he files his complaint immediately, he is punished. By the eternals, there ought to be a law like that in civil life to Allah for whining parents and nagging wives and scolding employers and the whole obnoxious parade of fault finders.
OK Solberg:You will find examples of the futility of criticism bristling on a thousand pages of history. End of quote. That's it for today from how to win friends and influence people, but it says don't criticize. Guys, I used to work with youth ranch boys. Most of them I picked up right out of jail.
OK Solberg:You had to wait a long time sometimes to ever see them do something right. But I'll tell you what, when I saw them do something right, I praised them, I patted them on the back, it goes so much further. If it's heartfelt, don't do it just to think you're gonna win them over. They'll see through you so quickly like a like a sheet a pure sheet of glass, they'll see through you. But if it's genuine, that praise will far outdo any other criticism.
OK Solberg:Tune in again tomorrow. So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.