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Are we having fun yet? Attitude and Peak performance in the workplace.(LEADERSHIP)(Column)
So much of what we consider success in life simply is how we look at things. The story has been told of parents who had two identical twin boys. They were identical in everyway except for their temperaments. One of the boys was a hope-filled optimist. "Everything is coming up roses!" he would always say. The other twin was a sad and hopeless pessimist; in fact, he was so pessimistic, he thought that the guy who invented "Murphy's Law" (i.e., anything that can go wrong, probably will) was an optimist.
So, the worried parents brought their twin boys to the local psychologist in order to balance out their personalities. "On their next birthday," the psychologist ...
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