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When you want to stop saying “no” too quickly
The hardest person to convince is often yourself.
After all, you can tell yourself “no” more quickly than anybody else ever could.
There’s one simple change you can make to help get past your biggest critic, and help persuade yourself to say “yes” not “no”.
Harrison (Buzz) Price carried out the feasibility studies that helped Disney choose the locations of its first few theme parks. He said that, when responding to one of Walt Disney’s ideas, you had to say “Yes if”, not “No because”. You can see why. Imagine if Disney had said “no because” to:
- Can we marry up hand-drawn animation and sound?
- Can we use colour, not black and white?
- Can we make the first ever full-length animated film?
- Can we build a high-quality ...
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