{"id":5183,"date":"2024-04-01T08:29:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T08:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chchealthwatch.com\/blog\/?p=5183"},"modified":"2025-05-02T16:12:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:12:51","slug":"what-exactly-is-positivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chchealthwatch.com\/blog\/what-exactly-is-positivity\/","title":{"rendered":"What Exactly Is Positivity? 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But people often confuse positivity with wishful thinking or blind optimism. Let me illustrate what positivity is with a story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">There were once two pots owned by a humble fisherman who lived by a river. One of the pots was broken but the fisherman was too poor to replace it with a new one. So every morning he\u2019d carry both the pots, slung from a horizontal bar across his shoulders, to the river, fill them up and walk back to his hut. The broken pot would leak water all the way from the river to the hut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">One day, a friend visiting the fisherman saw the broken pot and asked him whether the broken pot doesn\u2019t bother him and whether it doesn\u2019t depress him that he can\u2019t replace it. At this, the fisherman broke into a smile and said, \u201cCome, let me show you something.\u201d He took his friend out into the path from his hut to the river, and said to him, \u201cLook on both sides of the path. What do you see?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">The friend said, \u201cI see plants.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">\u201cHow do you think those plants, which are thriving, were watered every day?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">The friend got it in an instant, and said, \u201cWow, now I get it! Now I get why you are always happy, content and successful in your own way!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">Since the broken pot leaked water, it had watered all the plants every time the fisherman carried it from the river to the hut, without him having to do it separately!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">This is true positivity: seeing the opportunity in a problem; a solution in a challenge. 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