5 Successful Ways To Identify Negative People In Your Life

How to stop people from stealing your happiness.

Benjamin Nweke
Mind Cafe

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Photo by Fernando Brasil on Unsplash

In his outstanding 1950 film, Rashomon, the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa depicts the story of a rape and murder four times, from the perspectives of four characters.

The takeaway is concise: Different people can see the same events in intensely diverse ways.

We all want to live good and happy lives, and we try our best to remain in a state of happiness even through the difficulties and bad situations surrounding us.

Mingling with genuine people with positive mutual interests and provide support and care.

As a freshman in college, I rushed into socializing, carelessly mingled with everybody around campus without understanding the kind of people they are, and pretty soon, I ended up in the company of people who never saw the positive side of situations.

Generally, I possess a solid optimistic trait, but I engaged with these guys every day, and it was like they were sucking the positivity and filling me up with gloom.

Much helpful information aired on the news last night, but they are only after the bad news and never hesitate to share it. Too much exposure to negative information dramatically affects mental…

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Benjamin Nweke
Mind Cafe

I value your time. Data scientist, positivity therapist, and mental health advocate. Works in: The Startup, Mindcafe, Towards data science, and others.