Last night at a bar while talking up a band I love I caught myself putting a separate but related band down. On the way home it bothered me that I did that, and it’s still bothering me this morning. I wish I had just focused on the thing I liked and the things I like about it rather than putting down the thing I don’t. It didn’t make my point any clearer and it didn’t make me feel good.
We’ve made such a currency out of putting things down, I wonder what would happen if we all spent a week only talking up things we like and left the things we don’t alone. We might sleep just a little better.
P.S. the thing I like most about this space is that it’s built to support exactly this type of thinking and sharing.