I’m a positive person who expresses it realistically, which many people see as being negative. I’m a “hope for the best, prepare for the worst” kind of guy. I might look gloomy and pessimistic, but that’s because I’m preparing for the worst. I am trying to minimize my disappointment in case the wrong outcome should occur.
At lot of people will look at me and say, “You’ve got to think positively. If you don’t believe it, it won’t happen. You get back from life what you put out there.”
I fully hate not to succeed and I never intend to fail. If I think I will fail, I won’t bother to waste energy on it.
Another thing is that I don’t brag. Or even claim many capabilities for myself that I actually have. Sometimes I’ll deny it when someone points out that they think I’m good at this or that. Sometimes that comes from depression and low self-esteem, and sometimes that comes from a belief that I’m no better than anyone else, and so that means I need to not get full of myself.
I believe that it’s not about me. Nothing is about me. It’s about all of us. It’s about whoever I am interacting with at the time. It’s about all of us working collectively to create whatever it is we are creating. We’re all on the same team.
Because I believe that, the ideas of positive or negative outlooks somehow aren’t relevant. You can present yourself as happy and enthusiastic (which drives me nuts) or morose and defeatist (which makes me want to go somewhere else), but I’d much prefer a more matter-of-fact outlook. This is where we want to go; this is what stands between us and our goal; let’s get to work solving problems.