“What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad — or as positive and negative — are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.”

— Buckminster Fuller

From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)

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American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inv… 1895–1983

Jay R. Galbraith (1939–2014) American business theorist

Jay R. Galbraith (2002), Designing organizations: an executive guide to strategy, structure, and process. p. 15

“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.”

Mark Manson (1984) American writer and blogger

Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 1, “Don’t Try” (p. 9)

“You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off.”

Miley Cyrus (1992) American actor and singer-songwriter

“However, the fact that we must love our parents cannot limit us from observing and identifying their daily behaviours; both negative and positive.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“When you negate the negative that someone thinks or feels with the positive, you are denying them the authentic support they need to deal with what they are facing.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.”

Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist

From 1980s onwards, Cosmography (1992)
Context: Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence. If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.