Kevin SuraceKevin Surace is an AI pioneer, inventor, author, and human effectiveness authority helping people thrive while AI reshapes work and life.

How Complaining Could Be Sabotaging Your Success

15 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this motivational segment, Kevin Surace explains that people complain an average of 50‑120 times per day, which creates a metaphorical "hole" that drains positive energy. Each complaint deepens the hole, forcing you to spend time and effort merely to recover rather than to perform at your best. Surace argues that to achieve peak daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly success you must maintain a positive energy quotient of at least 10, not zero. By reducing complaints and cultivating a positive mindset, you avoid the energy loss and can stay at the top of your game.

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Worldwide, people complain the better part of 100 times a day, internal and external. If you get up tomorrow and count them, you're going to find it's 50 or 80 or 100 or 120. It's numbers like that. That is how you've been living your life. And what happens is you start digging a hole, and any positive energy you later have is just digging yourself out of that hole instead of being at the top of game all day. And you could be the top of game, but you've got to have a positive quotient of 10. Not of zero. And so every time you complain, you dig that hole deeper, and then you have to spend time getting out of that hole. So how are you ever going to reach your peak success that day, that week, that month, that year? You're not.