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Reminds me of an experience I had at church. Every Easter I worked with others to prepare Easter breakfast. Year after year I noticed the dishwasher silverware basket had a bad bacteria smell that never went away. Made me wonder why good smells fade and bad smells last forever. Like you said,
someone posted on a forum that it is nature's mechanism to detect the bad. In this case, bad bacteria. If the bad smell faded, it would be a health risk. I threw out the basket without even asking for permission to do so. Good smells do not last and that will keep the fragrance companies in business.
Bad is Stronger than Good: Why Eliminating the Negative is More Important than Accentuating the Positive
I had a piece appear today in the Wall Street Journal called "How a Few Bad Apples Can Ruin Everything," a topic I have written on before and her, especially, in Good Boss, Bad Boss. A fun discussion of bad apples can also be found on This American Life; check out the opening interview of this...
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