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One of the ideas that Chip and Dan Heath wrote about in Switch was this idea that we as people are predisposed to problems.  We automatically think about problems. On Monday after the football game, we will talk about the loss and all of the missed field goals by Nate Keading.  It’s natural to talk about all of the bad things that happened.  Even when your team wins, people still focus on what they should have done.

Our analytical tendencies draw us to think of the negative right away – to think of all of the problems.  One of the fundamental ways to make change is to use our analytical tendencies to focus – not on the problems, but on the positives.  Focus on the good things that have happen and continue to happen.