Comments on: Embrace the Dark Side! https://www.mindtools.com/blog/embrace-the-dark-side/ Mind Tools Tue, 03 Mar 2015 07:41:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 By: Midgie Thompson https://www.mindtools.com/blog/embrace-the-dark-side/#comment-2150 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 07:41:43 +0000 http://www.mindtools.com/blog/?p=3689#comment-2150 In reply to Bob Bennett.

Thanks Bob for sharing your thoughts. I agree that we may not appreciate something until we have experienced the opposite.

Much like a friend who lives in the same city yet you do not see each other that often. Then, when they move away, it is only then that you miss their friendship.

Everything has a counter-balance!

]]> By: Bob Bennett https://www.mindtools.com/blog/embrace-the-dark-side/#comment-2149 Sat, 28 Feb 2015 15:00:23 +0000 http://www.mindtools.com/blog/?p=3689#comment-2149 Thank you for sharing this. I often use the example that you cannot know what happiness is unless you have suffered misfortune. Or for the more hands on, how do you teach a child what hot is? They must experience it for themselves - they must reach for and touch the stove. It is why people leave good companies, because they do not know how good they have it if they have not experienced poorly run organizations, or why they stay because - they have.

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