Third, negativity. You can fall into this. My mother, in the last year of her life, became very very negative, and it has hard to listen. I remember one day, I said to her： “It is October 1 today”and she said: “I know, isn’t it dreadful? ” It is hard to listen when somebody’s that negative.
And another from of negative, complaining. Well, this is the national of the U.K. It is our national sport. We complain about the weather, about sport, about politics, about everything. But actually complaining is viral misery. It is not spreading sunshine and lightness in the world.
Excuse, we have all met the guy. Maybe we have all been this guy. Some people have a blamethrower. They just pass it on to everybody else and don’t take responsibility for their actions, and again, hard to listen to somebody who is being like that.
Penultimate, the sixth of the seven, embroidery, exaggeration. It demeans our language, actually, sometimes. For example, if I see something that really is awesome, What so I call it ?And then of course this exaggeration become lying, out and out lying ,and we don’t want to listen to people we know are lying to us.
And finally, dogmatism. The confusion of facts with opinions.
