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> 3) General negativity and naysaying. I am guilty of this, and I've never thought about it as a problem, just as how my mind is wired. That comment was a bit

• micromacrofoot 5y ago
  One thing that works for me is trying to push this problem-finding routine into general curiosity about the world around me... I never expected to get into gardening but I started learning more about the plants and weeds growing in my little yard, and one thing lead to another. I've also started keeping track of the birds.
• KineticLensman 5y ago
  Something I discovered as a reviewer was the importance of reigning in my own negativity tendency, i.e. to pick holes in things. If I reviewed something that I didn't personally like, but which would in fact still work, I learned to decide whether or not it was worth mentioning it or not. That way I wouldn't overload the reviewee with a mass of criticism, and the things that would genuinely need changing weren't hidden in a flood of picky little points.