Pete Alexander2x TEDx Speaker and best-selling author helping transform burned out workers into engaged colleagues.

What Toxic Messages Can Do To Us

5 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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Two identical plants grew under the same conditions except for words spoken to them. After a month, the plant hearing arguing and toxic language wilted while the one receiving encouragement thrived. The speaker argues toxic messages physically harm living things, including people.

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people would come and purposely argue next to one plant, same variety of plant, same size plant, et cetera. Everything else was kept the same. So one plant had to deal with all the toxicity. One plant got, oh, feedback like, oh, you look good, or how you doing, blah, blah, blah, positivity. And it was amazing after a month what one plant looked like. Versus the other. Crazy. Fascinating. It is. It just shows because plants are, they're living creatures basically, or they're organisms, and they respond to the negativity as well. So if our arguing, if our toxicity can do that to plants, can you imagine what it's doing inside of us?