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Ask HN: How do you tackle your own negativity?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you tackle your own negativity?
#212I'm not perfect about this but one experience in particular helped me. I was a new employee doing on-the-job training for an even newer employee, while we were trying to meet a deadline. We were the only two people working on this project, in the middle of rural NM, out of cell range, and having to improvise. He kept making suggestions and I kept explaining why they wouldn't work. Suddenly he point-blank asked me why…
Every time I catch myself thinking "wrong" about a position or solution someone states, I remind myself that my thinking is probably the only wrong thing here. I displace that negative behavior with curiosity.
That means, trying to explore what the other person might know that I do not. What data or knowledge I am missing could have lead that person to the view or position my fast thinking labeled as wrong?
Rarely, it does happen that I had more context or data, but those are outliers. In general, by adapting my behavior from thinking "wrong!" to thinking "what does this person know that I do not?" I am able to have way more productive conversations.
Re: Ask HN: How do you tackle your own negativity?
#213Good exercise and sleep