by Rick Baker
On Jun 14, 2020
The Thinking Behind The Tweet
Is your glass at least half-full and half-empty?
Rather than limit people to 2 ways of thinking and claiming one is optimistic and the other pessimistic, we ought to encourage people to view Situations and People's actions from multiple perspectives...by, for example, encouraging people to use tools like Edward de Bono's 'Six Thinking Hats'.
In some Situations, it is appropriate to consider what has been added while in others it is appropriate to consider what has been subtracted. Sometimes we need to consider possibilities. Other times we need to identify the need for urgent action.
This goes beyond optimism, pessimism, and realism. While that 'mindset' differentiation may be important, with people or with situations, it also may not be important.
Situations & People deserve a lot more thinking than optimism/pessimism tests.
PS: That glass-half-full-glass-half-empty saying has always annoyed me. It is too cliché and it puts people into a 2-dimensional box when all of us know we live in at least a 3-dimensional world.
by Rick Baker
On May 18, 2020
The Thinking Behind The Tweet
Shape up, Man, you gotta improve your attitude!
Great advice in theory - useless advice in reality.
If you want to help people with negative thinking, think first about your own attitude, thoughts and action then learn how to improve by replacing negative thinking with new thoughts.
by Rick Baker
On Feb 28, 2020
The Thinking Behind The Tweet
Of course, Sir Winston Churchill comes to mind, “Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
Churchill, singularly, inspired a nation.
But, there's more to it...
Churchill inspired himself.
[...in support of inspiration and daily affirmations]