Always be a thermostat, Never a thermometer.

On a chili evening in San Francisco a few weeks ago, I ran into my entrepreneur mentor Galen Yuen. We chatted from 11pm till 5am about entrepreneurship + life.

One great lesson I learned is to …

{ Always be a thermostat, Never a thermometer}

When you walk into a room filled with negative people, the thermometer minded person instantly become negative.

But if you’re a thermostat minded person, you control the “temperature.” You dictate your thoughts, which are correlated to your mood.

Simple, yet it takes a life time to master and perhaps seasons for this to become a habit.