Ok, occassionally I like to keep a secret. At least for a little while. It makes me feel special to know something someone else doesn't already know. But like all good things, that must come to an end. I am going to share one of my favorite bloggers, Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users:

http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passi...negative_p.html

This article makes me think a LOT about OSP & what OSP is and where we're going. Do you think that OSP is a positive place? If you do, does it make you happier to be around happy people? What do you think of any negative people? Are they a good change of pace or something worth ignoring when you're in your happy place?

Please let's not get into a fight here either btw. I'm not picking on unhappy people - I LOVE osp and I think it's very happy & nice. I'm NOT singling anyone out and I just enjoyed the article (again) and wanted to share it. I highly HIGHLY recommend subscribing to CPU at http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passi..._users/atom.xml

I love this blog! Thanks for sharing it

Wow, how did this stay buried for so long?!

It is a long blog post but read the whole thing, it is high quality

I think OSP is a primarily positive place with predominantly positive people. I feel happier when I am with happy people. I blocked the notoriously negative people a while ago. In real life I ignore the cynics and the whiners and keep a close circle of quality friends who I know feel the same way I do about life and business

There seemed to be some parallels between that blog and the Secret DVD that circulated the web and was on Oprah twice within a matter of days.

Hey Brady, you haven't responded to my 13 OSPmails that I sent you, or looked at any of my posts in the last little while......why? why Brady? why??





sorry couldn't resist. :naughty:



I think over all OSP is positive, but it needs to be balanced with actual valid criticism and 'real world' -liness on occasions as I think the 'helping' gets lost in some of the fluff sometimes.

make sense?

The problem with limiting your interactions to "happy" people and people who feel the same way as you do is that you separate yourself from anything new or different. Eventually you become a part of an insular, closed community where no new ideas or concepts are welcome or accepted (and I'm speaking in general, not talking about OSP in particular).

I have learned the most and been forced to examine my thoughts, ideas, and beliefs the most when challenged by those who disagree with me, who are cynical, even (maybe even especially) those who made me angry. And the idea that those people are "unhappy" just because they challenge your status quo is, quite simply, wrong, IMO.

I don't want to be surrounded by people who don't want to hear the bad with the good ... or by a bunch of Stepford people. I want honest, passionate, and intense responses. (And mind you, passionate and intense doesn't mean rude or hateful or attacking - there's a difference).

Karen

True, it's not a good idea to immerse yourself into a negative, unhappy group. Nor the opposite. What you'll find here (OSP) are several slightly distinct groups that intermix quite nicely. Some are very much into their religion (asking for prayers, attributing things to God, etc.), some are very money-oriented, some are rather jaded... it goes on.

But I like to see a good mix because I don't feel like this is one big mutual admiration society. And it's important for us humans to see what we don't like, in order to know what we do like.

Reminds me of something one of my college professors said back in 1988 -- he said success in marketing occurs when you "afflict the comfortable."

Wow.

Wow.

Thanks for sharing that, Matt. Lots for me to process - I've been dealing with lots of toxic lately, and this brought me an interesting perspective.