downgrading 

downgrading

there was a scientific study done a few years ago, envolving two plants...one was healthy and strong and the other one was rather puny and didn't grow too much. The experiment part was to throw insults at one plant and compliment the other one. The scientific study proved that one plant succeeded and became a thriving healthy plant and the other one became a lowly small frail plant. Don't downgrade....unless you want it done to you.