“Why are you always so happy? Where does your energy come from?”. These are questions I stumble across more often that I’d like.
According to Viktor Küppers, “Value = (Knowledge + Skill) x Attitude”. And this could not be more correct. People are a set of characteristics, but the one which will make them stand out is their attitude. In our daily life, we get to interact with highly professional people. Some of them are incredibly skilled or are experts on a particular subject, but the ones that leave a mark in our minds are the positive ones.
-- I previously wrote this article on my Medium profile, you can find it here: https://medium.com/@jaimepichardogarcia/why-are-you-always-so-happy-8a87aeaf66f4 --
Have you ever requested something and a person has gone out of his/her way to make it happen? Do you have a colleague who comes to work everyday with a big smile and says something nice to you? This is the kind of people making a difference in any kind of organisation.
What the formula show is a clear fact: knowledge and skill add value, but attitude multiplies it. Whenever you meet someone for the first time, we have what’s called the“first impression”. This is totally subjective and the first minutes are crucial on how you’ll view that person. Some people will just go pass you and you’ll rarely remember them. Others will make you “wow!” in those first minutes.
We live in an era in which everyone has studies, knows several languages or have some certain set of skills which defines them. A positive, willing person will always have a higher value than a pessimist and negative person. This might seem obvious, but again I refer to the first question “Why are you always so happy?”. We have been taught it’s fine to have problems, worries and stress, but we haven’t been shown what our neutral status should be. During my days, weeks and months, I go through all the scope of feelings: sometimes there are disappointments, somedays you are more tired than usual and others you are just not feeling at your best. But whenever those situations come to an end, I go back to my neutral status: happiness. Why does a happy worker seem more strange than a stressed/upset one? Why do we need a reason to be happy?