Listened to an Office Hours podcast episode today and heard a concept I’ve heard but in a way that I’ve never heard it before.
The main concept behind it is that people are very quick to call out the bad in the world because it shows others how upright of a person they are. If they’re opposed to all bad things they must be pretty awesome people, right?
However, on the other side of things, you see a much smaller amount of people who actually input the good.
In the podcast, they gave the example of the Jessie Smullet case, how when he first came out with his story, everyone ran to him and was calling out bigotry and the people on the other side and telling them how bad they were.
Then, when the roles reversed, and Jessie Smullut was revealed to have staged his own attack, people were pretty quick to jump on the anti-Jessie Smullet side of things. To say he’s what’s wrong with the world.
What if you just focused on the positive things you want to accomplish instead of focusing on the negative things others believe in. Input good instead of calling out evil.