Finally!!

Usually, when studies quoting the obvious appear in the papers or in the blogs, I tend to enter 'Fark mode' and sadly think: "and still no cure for cancer".
But today, after years of longing, I stumbled upon this article.
Yes, it says the grumps are good for you.

So, so you are warned, I am a grumpy person. I "complain too much", I "worry too much" and I also happen to be right 90% of the time when it comes to analyzing situations.
Day after day, I find my Twitter timeline and, Facebook activity stream crowded with positive thinking from "The Secret", quoting nonsensical nuggets of unicorn rainbow poop such as "Think about bananas and you'll get bananas" and "A smile is free".
Day after day I find myself thinking "Shall I wrap my mood in caramel marshmallow so luck comes to me?"

Well, good news for me: I don't have to, and I was right. Again.

Just so I give myself the joy of overemphasizing on some points I have probably written before:

• Positive thinking has nothing to do with being positive. Positive thinking is about finding constructive solutions to your problems, solution that make you go forward, thus the "positive"; It has nothing to do with thinking yourself to whatever your target is (except slacking, I'm very good at thinking myself to that)
• When someone comes at you complaining, give their 'bad attitude' a break and try to find out why these persons are complaining, yeah, sometimes people actually complain for a reason
• When someone tells you 'I told you', they probably did tell you. When it happens more than once: try listening, the smart-ass is not who you think

I know I'm not alone in here, to get worried when problems come along, to see where a certain set of bad data can lead a situation (or a company, for what it's worth).

So next time, when this grumpy dude from the IT/Support/Whatever service comes to you and tells you "I don't think that's good", keep in mind that they don't want to ruin your day, they're probably right.

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