Comments on: Quit whinging and ‘use the difficulty’! http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/08/24/quit-whinging-and-use-the-difficulty/ Education. Technology. Productivity. Fri, 25 May 2012 09:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ian Guest http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/08/24/quit-whinging-and-use-the-difficulty/comment-page-1/#comment-5978 Ian Guest Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:47:00 +0000 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/?p=2899#comment-5978 On the money once more Mr B.; I know of several people to whom your comments might apply. I find myself wondering what a 'whinger' would think after reading your post. Would they recognise themselves as a whinger? Does whinging come as part of a package along with other negative traits . . . like being unwilling to accept criticism? Are typical whingers simply not sufficiently proactively inclined to search for solutions to the issues they're whingeing about? Although you’re right in that positively inclined folks tend to avoid whingers, the latter often hunt in packs. I’ve noticed that whingers tend to aggregate; they feed off each other’s negative comments, feeling vindicated that someone else shares their view. This can of course make it that much more of a challenge when you’re trying to push forwards. But hey, the sweetest victories are those which are hardest won are they not? On the money once more Mr B.; I know of several people to whom your comments might apply.

I find myself wondering what a ‘whinger’ would think after reading your post. Would they recognise themselves as a whinger? Does whinging come as part of a package along with other negative traits . . . like being unwilling to accept criticism? Are typical whingers simply not sufficiently proactively inclined to search for solutions to the issues they’re whingeing about?

Although you’re right in that positively inclined folks tend to avoid whingers, the latter often hunt in packs. I’ve noticed that whingers tend to aggregate; they feed off each other’s negative comments, feeling vindicated that someone else shares their view. This can of course make it that much more of a challenge when you’re trying to push forwards. But hey, the sweetest victories are those which are hardest won are they not?

]]> By: Anonymous http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/08/24/quit-whinging-and-use-the-difficulty/comment-page-1/#comment-5977 Anonymous Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:23:00 +0000 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/?p=2899#comment-5977 I don't know why I started watching that British TV show, "Young Dumb and Living off Mum," now those are great examples of whingers -- you want to stay away from all of those kids! Maybe after age 3, whining stops working ;) I don’t know why I started watching that British TV show, “Young Dumb and Living off Mum,” now those are great examples of whingers — you want to stay away from all of those kids!

Maybe after age 3, whining stops working ;)

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