Lessons Learned: 'Negators' and Creators
There are two “extremes” of people I think about today. Both types can be found all over the place, trying to do their best work, but being slightly held back by their own extra cautiousness or optimism. One is the overly pessimistic, always seeing things negatively. When you approach this kind, he always finds you a dozen of reasons why something cannot be done, all these is a flash as if just pulling them out of his sleeve right on the spot, without any effort. If you don’t watch out, you’re starting to believe yourself, and in two moves you’re convinced. Just that, after you go away, you realize that you still need to solve the problem; you’ve just fallen for the spell. Then you must go back and start over again. An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full, the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be. Negators can be an annoying species, one that uses up your time if you don’t know how to manage them. But then, they ...