From: Entrepreneur
Why Entrepreneurs Who Complain Are Setting Themselves Up to Fail
June 4, 2015
Entrepreneur:
Your problems are proportional to the amount of time you spend complaining about your problems: The less you complain, the fewer problems you will have. This is because complaining about your problems keeps your attention on your problems. And attention generates force.
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The squeaky wheel doesn’t get the grease. The squeaky wheel breaks down and gets replaced.
If you want to attract failure, talk about your problems. If you want to attract success, talk about what makes you happy. A study published in the journal Psychological Science and reported in Science Daily examined how people responded to positive versus negative social media-status updates.
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