Sometimes Being Positive or Negative Isn’t Enough — You Need To Be Ambivalent
The best thing you can ever do is to understand yourself.
When you tell your friend about a situation, you’re more than likely to get this reply: “look at the bright side here bud.”
Well, they did their best. Not every time things are about right, wrong, positive, or negative. Sometimes things are in the middle and yet to be classified.
That’s where the term ambivalence comes in. It means having mixed feelings about a certain situation or a certain someone without having to jump to conclusions. Staying in the middle is always a good technique before you put the negative or positive label onto something.
But when you’re ambivalent, you need a different frame of mind. Here are 3 things you need to know to become ambivalent.
1. When the lava is hot, don’t touch it
Literal meaning: wait
Refrain from jumping into something unclear.
Why? Because at that time, the lava is still hot. The facts are yet to be decided and uncovered. At that moment, if you choose to put a pointy finger on a person without knowing, you can have very bad consequences you never thought of.
