Kevin Surace explains how limiting yourself to one complaint per day can boost your "positive quotient." The average person complains 100 times daily, a survival instinct no longer needed. When you raise your positivity score to 10, people find you more attractive professionally and personally.
The one complaint a day rule is interesting because the average human has about 100 complaints a day. From the time you get up, oh, my knees hurt. Oh, the breakfast is wrong. Oh, the weather. We're sort of born to complain. It's just sort of what humans did. And there's a reason for that, because our ancestors that got us here were very worried about the lion eating them, and they were worried about stuff and complaining about stuff. And that was the world. We don't have any of those problems today, right? In the first world, we don't have any of those problems. We know where the food is. We know where Wegmans is in Pittsburgh. We know how to get there. So we don't need to do that anymore. And so we gamify it and we say, look, if you want the most success, you cannot be tearing yourself down with these complaints because that takes your positive quotient or your positiveness down, down, down, down, down. Right. And finally, if you woke up at a 5 and now you're at a 0, you got to work yourself back up, hopefully to a 10. Because when you're at a 10 in positive quotient, everyone around you loves you. Everyone wants to be managed by you. Everyone wants to interface with you. You know, all those things are good. You're going to be the most successful. And so we teach that and then we show how you're going to start counting your complaints. And eventually, over the course of days or weeks or maybe a month or two, you're going to limit yourself to one complaint a day. So if you do get out of bed and go, oh, my knees hurt, it's out. You're done. You're done for the day.
