Can You Get to Success Town on the Complain Train?

In this episode, I answer a question from the Architecting community about negativity. As a leader, you have to deal with situations that can be downright adverse at times.  Here's why talking about it isn't a bad thing.

1. Your brain is hardwired for negative bias as a survival instinct, so we naturally see what’s wrong before what’s right. That can be leveraged for good as it can paint a more complete picture. It can also be demoralizing and seen as a way to shut something down.
2. See a challenge instead of a problem. How can you be resourceful about meeting the challenge? What opportunities is it giving you to learn or hone your skill set? What holes in your work is it allowing you to fix?

   Build on what you are learning instead of shutting it down by saying yes and instead of no but...

3. Stop fighting.  Fighting relies on polarizing the situation, making the other party wrong. Instead, assume positive intent. This let’s you build on feedback instead of proving you are right.

4. Conflict is a growth. It lets us consider a more diverse point of view as well as to see how we can improve. We can’t do that if we are relentlessly positive and ignore anything we don’t agree with.

Listen to the Space Doctor Sessions on my YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/rZYQpt6MBS8

Give Architecting a Google review- be sure to name the episode! https://g.page/r/CVYGVmEtsUjdEAI/review

Stay Inspired,

Angela

Join the architecting community:

YouTube, Instagram,  LinkedIn, Clubhouse, Facebook

Interested in sponsoring a show or having me as a guest on your podcast or community? Stop here to get information.

Into/outro music Alive by Richard Wasson Copyright 2019