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Courage isn’t about eradicating fear, but rather about transforming negativity into productivity.

Where negative emotions help us see trees, positive ones reveal forests.

Negative emotions offer us feedback on our performance, information on what’s working and what’s not, and hints about how to do better.

You cannot build positive relationships with people if they perceive you negatively. Trust is the glue that hold people together.

To lead a big and vigorous life, you must work to overcome this negativity bias… remind yourself that the downside of a given situation is probably not as bad, or as likely, as it seems.

Negativity and lack of faith beget more negativity. On the other hand, optimism, positivity, and faith create the foundation from which success can be built.

We’re most likely to interpret ambiguity as negative when we’re texting or emailing with people we don’t knew well or with more senior colleagues.

Often managers don’t know how their reactions come across, and because their days are so packed, they don’t have time to reflect on or apologize for their negative reactions.

…in the Age of Digital, where product development is unique, lack of collaboration and shared learnings has a direct negative impact on productivity and organizational outcomes.

When we’re freed from the mythology that we control outcomes and asked instead to concentrate on behaviors, we have a powerful tool to fight against negativity and anxiety.