Want To Be More Interesting? Get Positive.

Personal Development is about the whole person, how you tick, how you feel and what you are doing in your life that satisfies you and makes you happy. Part of the whole person experience is the relationships that you have with others and how you create opportunities to interact with people.  So lately, I have been busily creating lots of new relationships because I have left my long term field of employment and moved out into a home business in personal development. This is a very exciting time for me and causes me to explore “being interesting”.  After all, who wants to interact with a boring person!

Reading Edward de Bono again, not sure how many times that is now, I found a passage on Possibility in his book How To Be More Interesting. “If we could only open our mouths to deliver encyclopedic facts we should largely remain silent.  Interest would be confined to only those facts which were in themselves interesting.  It is possibility and speculation that can make anything more interesting.” de Bono goes on to talk about going beyond what is in front of you, scanning the mind for a variety of possible conclusions about any one thing.  He says that narrowing down and being dogmatic is boring.

My mind immediately linked this whole subject to being positive. How can you become interesting, scanning around for possibilities if you are locked into pessimism and negative thinking.  Would this lock out the various possibilities that might come up in the course of interesting conversations?  Negative attitudes tend to deplete the energy around them and a vibrant and interesting conversation surely requires energy as well.

So I have decided that positive people must be more interesting. And I know from previous experience that wiring your brain for positivity is scientifically proven to be possible.  It is just a state of mind.