Dr. Haley Perlus

But you have to be assertive in that.

Well, be open-minded to hear it.

But then here's the thing.

When you do say no to someone, what you're saying is not right now, right?

Let me get back to you.

I'm in the zone.

So then you have to actually follow up with that.

You have to then come back and say, okay, now I'm ready.

Are you ready?

So you can't just, because then they'll just learn, well, I'll never hear from you.

You'll never remember.

So, you know, it's a two-way street.

Yeah.

Great question.

So when we're looking for productivity, sometimes negative thinking can be productive.

Sometimes unpleasant emotions, sad, deflated, defeated, angry, frustrated can be productive.

And so I don't want to just pigeonhole us into just thinking that positive thinking is the only way to go.

And a lot of people in the performance zone will completely relate to that.

Now I'm saying it's not that positive thinking isn't also productive, but we have to understand that there is a place for...

just in simplest terms, negative thinking and negative emotions, those can be productive too.