Awesome that you have done the tally.. it’s just one more tool in the toolkit, but the more tools you have, the more situations you can “fix”

So in a sea of positivity, I watch the bad and in a sea of bad, I highlight the positive.

Nothing wrong with identifying the odd one out, it’s just about keeping perspective.

Finding the good things in a list is what gets us out of bed in the morning… but that can be hard for someone in the grips of depression.. wish I had more of your Pollyanna attitude some times.

After I read your post yesterday I did tally up the good and there is a lot. I made a little screen shot of the list to keep on my desktop for those times my memory needs a jog.

People usually laughs when I tell them that one of my strongest role model is Pollyanna, but I am being completely serious.

I always, ALWAYS try to find the good side of anything that happens, ever since I read “Pollyanna” when I was 8, and it never fails to help, at least a little, even during the darkest time of my life (for the record: I suffered from depression too, albeit for a relatively brief period).

We naturally tend to focus on the Bad, but life can be so much better if we can look at the Good too, and recognize it for what it is.
Life is so brief, why spending it in depsair?

It’s interesting what different people see.

A guildy saw the error in the maths… but wanted to know why… Why is it wrong, is it a pattern, what is the puzzle.

Me.. I’d just look, see the error and report 100% failure.

I remember when I was doing primary teacher training, they taught us to “ignore” multiple errors, just highlighting 1 or 2 in any piece of work. The kid will be disappointed enough with one error… don’t want them to know there is only one correct piece on the paper or they will be traumatized for life.

I guess it’s all a bit of a Life of Brian situation…

Just kidding – I actually wish I had one where I work now (I was encouraging my boss along those lines a while back – particularly when I had a friend who was a QA guy looking for work).

My previous job I was in charge of the development team… and we had QA people (not just software we worked with special hardware too) and after realising the developers weren’t reacting well to the testers talking to them I started that all going through me (largely this was a personality conflict though… our QA lady was… overly blunt?)

Still I picked up that #6 was wrong in the maths side. I wonder if my wife the teacher would pick up on it differently? I would have said it was the default reaction – to pick out the negative there where there is a definitive answer. To turn that into a positive and encouraging response though does take thought and a conscious effort and I imagine is more so where yourself is concerned.

Bound to be a reward… Icecream maybe.

A trend graph could help with the bug reporting. Ten last week, nine this week, that’s progress.