Aired May 22nd, 2025
I wanna again welcome you to the four zero five Coffee Break. Guys, you know the routine. You get your cup of coffee, glass of iced tea, bottle of water, sit back, relax, and let's see what's happening. Spring wheat, $5.62 a bushel, 550 pound steer calf, I hope to shout three ninety seven, lighter weights, pulling in over $4 a pound, a butcher hog in Omaha, Fifty Nine Cents a pound, and a hundred pound fat lamb in Billings at $2.14 a pound. But guys, there's more, much more.
OK Solberg:One two, buckle your shoe. Three four, open the door for a bible verse. Psalm thirty four eighteen, the lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. And listen, he can use us to comfort the brokenhearted when we learn about people. We work around them all the time.
OK Solberg:Wouldn't you want to learn about people? And listen from one of my favorite books by Dale Carnegie, published first in 1936. It's still as applicable today as it was back then and it's titled how to win friends and influence people. Listen as I quote from the book, chapter three, page 49. I go fishing up in Maine every summer.
OK Solberg:Personally, I'm very fond of strawberries and cream, but I find that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I go fishing, don't think about what I want, I think about what they want. I don't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Uh-uh. Rather, I dangle a worm or a grasshopper in front of the fish and say, wouldn't you like to have that?
OK Solberg:Why not use the same common sense when fishing for men? That's what Lloyd George did when someone asked him how he managed to stay in power after all the other wartime leaders, Wilson, Orlando, Clemens, had been ousted and forgotten, he replied that if his staying on top might be attributed to any one thing, it was probably to the fact that he had learned it was necessary to bait the hook to suit the fish. Why talk about what we want? That is childish, absurd. Of course, you're interested in what you want.
OK Solberg:You are eternally interested in it, but no one else is. The rest of us are just like you. We are interested in what we want. So the only way on earth to influence the other fella is to talk about what he wants and show him how to get it. Remember that tomorrow when you're trying to get somebody to do something.
OK Solberg:If, for example, you don't want your son to smoke, don't preach at him and don't talk about what you want, but show him that cigarettes may keep him from making the baseball team or winning the hundred yard dash. This is a good thing to remember regardless of whether you're dealing with children or calves or chimpanzees. For example, Ralph Waldo Emerson and his son wondered if they tried to get a calf into the barn, but they made the common mistake of thinking only of what they wanted. Emerson pushed and his son pulled, but the calf did just what they did, he thought only of what he wanted, so he stiffened his legs and stubbornly refused to leave the pasture. The Irish housemaid saw their predicament.
OK Solberg:She couldn't write essays, she couldn't write books, but on this occasion, at least she had more horse sense or calf sense than Emerson had. She thought of what the calf wanted. So she put her maternal finger in the calf's mouth and let the calf suck her finger as she gently let him into the barn. Every act you perform since the day you were born is because you wanted something. How about the time you gave a hundred dollars to the Red Cross?
OK Solberg:Yes. That is no exception to the rule. You gave the Red Cross a hundred dollars because you wanted to lend a helping hand, because you wanted to do a beautiful unselfish divine act in as much as you have done it under one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me. Oh, yes. There I end the quote.
OK Solberg:Dale Carnegie doesn't make it a preachy book, but he does insert a bible verse from time to time. Isn't that interesting? Tune in again tomorrow, so until next time. As you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.