Let me take you through a very simple math exam. I will rattle off a couple of equations, and you tell me what you observe about them. Be mindful of the instructions. You are to tell me what you OBSERVE about the equations. Here goes; 3+4=7, 9+2=11, 8+4=13, and 6+6=12. Tell me, what do you observe.When i was still working in electronics company,there are times that i have nothing much to do and comes up of playing some imaginations i used to write those simple equations on a piece of paper and pass it on to my workmates, more than 90 percent of them immediately say 8+4 is not 13 it is 12!
That is true and they are correct. But they could have also observed that the 3 other equations are right. That 3+4 is 7, that 9+2 is 11, and that 6+6 is 12.
If people you did not know were to walk through that door, most of you would describe these people by what is negative about them. He’s fat. She's deaf. Oh, the short one. Oh the skinny girl. Ahhh,her mouth is big. Etc, etc, etc. Get the point?
You will definitely experience this in the corporate world. You do a hundred good things and make one mistake. Guess what, chances are, your attention will be called on that one mistake.
So what is better than focusing on the negative? Believe me, it is focusing on the positive more than the negative. You do that, and this world would be a much nicer place to live in.
