“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!”, says Oscar Wilde. One has to read between these lines in order to understand what they mean. The meaning is simple: There are two ways to look at things one is with a positive attitude and another with a negative one. A positive attitude leads to some opportunity or solutions and negative one clouds ones thoughts eventually making it difficult to find a solution. Nagging about the problems instead of finding solutions is not good. Consider life a doughnut and difficulties the hole, one has to jump in the holes and face them. Therefore, one of the ways to have a happy and healthy life is to have the right and positive attitude towards it.
Positive attitude has many benefits. One of the examples is a team working on a complex project having critical deadlines. The team lead’s responsibility is to influence his team members in a positive way. If the team lead has a negative attitude towards the project, like the time span is not enough to complete the project. This attitude dampens the motivation and the team already believes that they will not be able to achieve the goal. Conversely, when the team lead has a positive attitude, then he or she can motivate the team members to at least start working on the project. This greatly increases the productivity of the team as a whole. If the team fails to finish the project on or before time, it would at least have something done towards it rather than just worrying about the deadlines. The team will have either some good experiences through this or would be considered for giving another chance to complete the project. Thus, having the positive attitude towards work simply helps one to have it done in a better manner.
Having a negative attitude towards anything is unfruitful for every other person in the world. For example, if everyone thinks there is no
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