I’ve always been a positive thinking person and have used the phrase Robert F. Kennedy used, “Some men see things as they are and say, ‘Why?’ I dream things that never were and say, ‘Why not?’” I believe you need to always be a positive-thinking person to get through life from a personal point of view, as well as a business point of view. No one teaches you all you need to know about life when you are in school, and if they did try, you probably were half-listening.
Putting personal positive thinking aside for this column, being a positive thinker in the business community is an invaluable skill to have if you plan to fulfill your full potential, too. In April 2011, I touched on the need for positive thinking, and I suggest you go back into your library collection of this column that I know you keep next to those other very important books in your engineering library.