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MAY TAKE LONGER
Alfred Adler, a famous psychologist, once put an ad in the paper for his Fourteen-Day Cure Plan. He claimed that he could cure anyone of any mental or emotional difficulty in just fourteen days if they would do just what he told them to. One day a woman who was extremely lonely came to see Adler. He told her he could cure her of her loneliness in just fourteen days if she would follow his advice. She was not very enthusiastic, but she still asked, “What do you want me to do?” Adler replied, “If you will do something for someone else every day for fourteen days, at the end of that time, your loneliness will be gone.” She objected profusely, “Why should I do anything for someone else? No one ever does anything for me.” Adler supposedly responded jokingly, “Well, maybe it will take you twenty-one days.”