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> [If it's working, keep doing it. If it's not working, stop doing it. If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melvin-konner/if-it-s-working-keep-doing-it-if-it-s-not-working-stop-doing-it-if/)

[Melvin Konner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melvin-konner/)

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## More by Melvin Konner

> [Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melvin-konner/navajo-infants-get-so-attached-to-cradleboard-that-they-cry-to-be/)

[Melvin Konner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melvin-konner/)

> [Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around severalmothers, all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melvin-konner/navajo-infants-get-so-attached-to-cradleboard-that-they-cry-to-be-2/)

[Melvin Konner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melvin-konner/)

> [In order to be treated fairly and equally, chidren have to be treated differently.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melvin-konner/in-order-to-be-treated-fairly-and-equally-chidren-have-to-be-treated/)

[Melvin Konner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melvin-konner/)

> [In a cross-cultural study of 173 societies (by Herbert Barry and L. M. Paxson of the University of Pittsburgh) 76 societies typically had mother…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melvin-konner/in-a-cross-cultural-study-of-173-societies-by-herbert-barry-and-l-m/)

[Melvin Konner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melvin-konner/)

> [If it's working, keep doing it. If it's not working, stop doing it. If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melvin-konner/if-it-s-working-keep-doing-it-if-it-s-not-working-stop-doing-it-if/)

[Melvin Konner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melvin-konner/)

> [Children are born as individuals. If we fail to see that, if we see them as clay to be molded in any shape we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melvin-konner/children-are-born-as-individuals-if-we-fail-to-see-that-if-we-see/)

[Melvin Konner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melvin-konner/)

> [Intern is not just a gripping tale of becoming a doctor. It's also a courageous critique, a saga of an immigrant family living (at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melvin-konner/intern-is-not-just-a-gripping-tale-of-becoming-a-doctor-it-s-also-a/)

[Melvin Konner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melvin-konner/)

> [A touching and compassionate yet completely professional account of the psychological--indeed spiritual--dimensions of the doctorDpatient relationship that make the difference between fixing and healing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melvin-konner/a-touching-and-compassionate-yet-completely-professional-account-of/)

[Melvin Konner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melvin-konner/)

> [It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melvin-konner/it-is-almost-intrinsically-impossible-for-ideas-about-how-we-are/)

[Melvin Konner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melvin-konner/)

> [“At the conclusion of all our studies we must try once again to experience the human soul as soul, and not just as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melvin-konner/at-the-conclusion-of-all-our-studies-we-must-try-once-again-to/)

[Melvin Konner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melvin-konner/)

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