My strength has always been in my belief in the power of negativity. I know, I know, and yes there are times when it weighs you down, such as in recent interviews when my distant past as secretary to presidents and vice presidents of corporations makes me less than cheerful as I sit in judgment for a clerk-typist job. Whatever makes them think, I wonder, that I was smarter at age eighteen than I am now? But then it came down to attitude and maybe mindless bubbly would have been more fulfilling of their needs somehow.
But that’s the instance when the less than confident approach can hurt me, and only in that way–when I let it show. Negativity used positively works just the opposite; it prepares me by asking all the questions first, i.e., I’ll never be able to do this…unless I (fill in the blank with an idea or solution).
There’s also other good negativity. Like in a biopsy report.
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