Indy,

My friend, David Firth, co-authored a book called RISE. There is a passage that reminds me of how the Wizard encourages us to define what we are against as well as what we are for. I thought you might want to grab a snippet for the random quote database:

The opposite of YES is not NO.

NO is a creative act. NO – as an authentic expression of denial or refusal – is one of the most powerful claims of our humanity. NO asserts boundaries, re-enforces priorities, produces certainty. All of these things are wonderful things. In fact, the world craves them, just as it craves leaders who can be explicitly and authentically YES in the world.

So the opposite of YES is not NO.

The opposite of YES is cynicism, defeatism, sarcasm or caution. It is a complaint; it is an expression of anxiety or anger dressed up as smart intellectualizing; or the assertion that others need to be different for us to be at our best.

– Charrise McCrorey and David Firth, RISE pg. 21

Have a very Merry Christmas,

Brian Vos