Read the following passage and answer questions:

Passage:
Private victory precedes public victory. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundations of good relationships with others. Some people say that you have to like yourself before you can like others. I think that idea has merit, but if you don’t knowyourself. if you don’t control yourself. if you don’t have
mastery over yourself, it is very hard to like yourself.

Independence is an achievement. Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make. Unless we are willing to achieve real independence, it is foolish to try to develop human relations skills.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations rather than from own inner core. others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.

So the place to begin building any relationship is inside us, inside our own character. As we become independent — proactive, centred in correct principles
— we then can choose to become interdependent capable of building rich, enduring. highly productive relationships with other people.