Do you do this also? No, and I believe that there are a lot of people like me, I think there are two types of people, those that default to negative projection

Do you do this also? No, and I believe that there are a lot of people like me, I think there are two types of people, those that default to negative projections and those that default to positive projections. I may be in the minority, but I tend to project positive attributes to people. Now I do see an occasional person from time to time that wears a certain thing or does a certain thing that will cause a negative thought but those are my own prejudges and I try to quickly correct myself. Most people crossing the street probably think that about me also. Who is that freak? I think the author struggles with projecting, it appears that they project negative traits on others and worse they project that other people are doing the same things. This creates all kinds of imaginary issues that can cripple an individuals ability to find profound connections with other people. I have come to believe that this is done as a defense mechanism by some people and it is an effective defense. Being an optimist I do sometimes get the worst end of the deal in believing in the good of people, but I also am afforded a lot of undeserved opportunity for doing so as well. As such I think I am no worse for wear because of it. The rest of the article is pretty good advice, one area I would add is to the last personality type, the one that will do you harm. I don't think the article goes far enough, it recommends ignoring them, which is sound advice but I would go so far as to say learn to forgive them the thing about forgiveness is it frees you, if they are truly that bad of a person they care nothing about your seething disdain for them, they may rather enjoy it, so in the end your lack of forgiveness is just eroding you. Forgiveness allows you to put them completely in the rear-view.