"It's just sort of a fantasy in America where you're validated if you become a model," says Meredith Hattam, an advisory board member for the advocacy group Model Alliance.
When you permit and publish comments from anyone, you're validating their opinion as equal to yours.
What's more important is that, for your children, you are validating their parents.
I think when we look back and can quantify it, we'll see it's pretty valuable to tell your network you are validating a viewpoint on something".
Age Exchange's artistic director, David Savill, says of reminiscence arts: "It's a means of opening up pathways of communications, using the past to inform the present … you're validating someone's identity and their life as being of value, and that has a massive effect".
If you are technologically not up to date, you are validating employer fears.
I'd also want to revisit your initial question of who the customer is when you're validating hypotheses about what to build.
"While we go through a rigorous test program, you really learn a lot when you're at sea and you're validating your system against the true environment of the carrier," says Johnson.
You're validating your customer's identity and making them feel appreciated for coming into your business, again.
