I was reading the Arabic translation of an English book that I owned to be able to find better words to use for my Arabic podcast. The translation was excellent and kept the spirit of this favorite book of mine intact. Then I noticed a mistake in translation where the translator missed negating a sentence that the author did. The first thought that came into mind was: oh I have to find the email address of the translator and notify him to make sure he fixes this in the next version! Then, I noticed my thoughts.

Here I was before, admiring the very well done translation, while never even considering thanking or praising the translator. The first whiff of a mistake, however, gets me into action mode.

How many times do we go about fault-finding instead of good-finding? I 100% believe it’s a skill we can improve, and it has to be intentional as our human tendency goes in the other direction.

Consider finding the good today, even better, tell the good doer you noticed.