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Dale Carnegie tells the story of a young man who, at the tender age of 30, became a Congressman for his home state. The newspaper and pundits of the day were outraged and the young representative was skewered in the press for being “too young for the job.”
At the press conference announcing his election, a neighbor to the new Congressman found himself standing next to the boys’ father. He mentioned he had read the terrible things the reporters had written about his son.
The father answered, “Yes, it was severe. But, my son knows, nobody kicks a dog when it’s down.”