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I've heard all the negative slogans from people who don't know any better. I have tons of ideas but only one set of hands. I usually don't plan to implement any
by 6510 4y ago
I've heard all the negative slogans from people who don't know any better. I have tons of ideas but only one set of hands. I usually don't plan to implement anything which is the only poor quality of the business plans I bother to talk about.
The funniest has to be one where I spend years simplifying the description of the product because people didn't understand how it was suppose to work. The comments were persistently negative and dismissive but went from hating on one part they didn't understand to the next. The pun here is that if people are to stupid or lazy to understand your product you don't have a product. Eventually (after years) I got the description hammered down to beautiful short and easy to understand.
It was so mind-blowingly simple now that the same moaners each individually took the same entirely different angle of attack (because it are attacks): If it was that simple someone else would have done it.
The actual lesion to be learned from this process is not what you think. I look at the "negativity first" folk as sad little creatures who simply don't get it. It is behavior so pathetic and intentionally hurtful that you should go on a search to find those qualities in yourself.
Every man or woman has things that make them get up in the morning. Their own passions or things to ponder. We all know instinctively how to hide these precious things from others who want to rub poop on them. If you approach someone humbly and carefully and ask them to tell the story of their thing they will re-examine you, look closely what the intend is behind your questions. If you are honest, kind and objective long enough they will eventually tell you how they found their thing and what makes it such an interesting thing for them personally.
Identify and purge the negativity from your system when it arises, something like: "what an idiot spending all this money on model trains" or "the banjo is a dumb instrument", "this woman with her stupid hand bag collection". Listen but focus on the emotions and stories around their passion.
And then... all of a sudden... you find yourself surrounded by passionate people. It is remarkably easy to work on your own thing in the right company. You might not be sinking years into trying to bake the perfect cheese cake but your know your [proverbial] software project is not up to those standards. You go back in to check if you dotted the i's perfectly because that is what you do, who you are.