Designer / blogger / entrepreneur Tina Eisenberg a.k.a Swissmiss gave a talk about The Power of Side Projects and Eccentric Aunts. In the talk, she shared things she had learned over the years, and she made two points that I think are pertinent:
“Don’t be a complainer. Make things better or let them go. I have zero tolerance for people that complain. But I have so much respect for people that make.”
One of the things I notice happening a lot lately, thanks to social networks, is that there are so many people out there who love to complain about the littlest of things. There’s this culture of making sneaky, whiny and cynic comments on twitter about almost everything. Maybe some people think by making such contemptuous comments publicly they are outsmarting the things / people / companies / products that they criticize. I don’t know. I’m tired of it. It is such a bad vibe to be around. Which brings me to the next point that Tina made in her talk:
“Ignore the haters. When you’re a maker and a doer, it also comes with people nitpicking on you. It took me quite a while to get good with the haters and at this point haters get none of my time. Zero. (…) Stay away from people who are fond of disliking things. You should be around people that like things, that are encouraging.”
