Milk Negativity for Gains
Exhortations The most repeated exhortation in motivational and corporate training circuits is about remaining positive’ irrespective of circumstances. Having been on the circuit, I have done it, many times over. But talks about positivity is meaningless unless we understand negativity, its contours and content and context. Negativity is everywhere. Overt or covert in application, crass or sophisticated in execution, words or deeds its manifestation, its existence recognised within or experienced from outside, negativity comes in countless shades and has little in common to call as character. Inseparable companion for some, identity for few, fuel for aggression or weapon of defense for many, we encounter negativity in some form every day. Interestingly, people reeking of negativity complain most about others’ negativity. Power of Negativity I realised the power of ‘negativity’, first time in the mathematics class. We were attempting to solve a linear equa...