What's Good About Who's Bad?
by Michael D. Hume, M.S.
I've made the point that there are two types new era black hats of person in the world, and in each of us. One type is the Entrepreneur: the daring risk-taker, the creative idea-generator, the energetic go-getter, the compassionate collaborator, the positive glass-half-full thinker. The other is the Victim: the cautious bureaucrat, the cynical idea-criticizer, the tired naysayer, the politically-minded competitor, the negative glass-half-empty complainer.
Which side of your own nature will dominate you depends upon which you feed, and which you let go hungry. Whether you own your own business or, like some of my clients, you're on a leadership mission within an organization, you want to constantly feed your "inner Entrepreneur," and give your "inner Victim" nothing to subsist upon. And one of the best ways to do both of these at once is to appreciate your adversaries.
We all end up with adversaries in life - people who seem to oppose you at every turn, sometimes for no particular good reason. You've met a few strong Entrepreneur-types, new era black hats though, who seem to acknowledge the reality of adversaries but live as though their aspiration is not to have any opponents at all. That type of person has realized that appreciating her adversaries is an excellent form of attitude maintenance, that it keeps her better nature strong while leaving her lesser nature wanting.
Think about your current adversaries. Who do you worry about? Who do you gripe about after work (hopefully not to excess)? Without whom would your life be humming along perfectly smoothly? With luck, you don't have more than a small handful of adversaries in your life today. She might be a former ally who has "turned"
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