Oops.. I don't have the recipe for it. I didn't know how to articulate the unhappy or non-nurturing feeling/experience I had with people who were negative in thinking...until I read a bunch of related blogs on the same article. Wow..I just simply couldn't disagree with these writers.
One of the reasons I am happier these days is that I tend to avoid chronically unhappy people ... those who have no intention of change - they get a perverse pleasure from their pain - particularly when they can inflict it on someone else.
Check out the following blog ... http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/04/angrynegative_p.html
Great scientific explanation for why we feel bogged down when we are with negative people.
Some interesting comments from that blog:
"If you spend all your time with honest people, you will stop telling lies. If you spend all your time with liars, you'll start to hear lies coming from your lips. If you spend all your time with angry people, you'll be angry; if you spend all your time with cheerful people, you'll be cheerful. And if you spend all your time with rich people...you'll go broke from picking up the check." couldn't resist chuckling at the end :).
Tell people that "I will only listen to good news. It is OK to point out a problem, but only if you have a solution, and usually only if you were volunteering to fix it."
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