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The fundamentals of transforming negative emotion into positive emotion

The fundamentals of transforming negative emotion into positive emotion

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The fundamentals of transforming negative emotion into positive emotion

- As a chemical engineer, I love all things science, but one of my favorite universal laws is the conservation of energy. It states that energy can neither be created or destroyed. It can only be transferred, transformed, or conserved. And I trust this law holds true for an energy that is near and dear to our hearts, emotion. At one time, I was working for a Fortune 100 company and transferred into a multibillion dollar business that it recently acquired. Charged with helping to lead the cultural integration within the technical community. I was one of a handful of transferees from the parent company. To put it bluntly, this was one of the most challenging changes I have ever experienced in my professional career. I remember sitting at lunch with many of the other transfers venting on a daily basis about the difficulty of the work. Things were just so different than what we had known making each and every day like an uphill…

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