It requires very little skill to be a naysayer. Naysayers are a lot like Henny Penny, running around crying, “the sky is falling,” merely because Chicken Little said it was so. Naysayers can do a lot of damage, and they do so without any accountability. Sometimes, I think their recklessness is akin to shouting “fire” in a crowded theater.

What’s interesting about the folktale and the central character, Henny Penny, is that what spawned the declaration of “the sky is falling” was an acorn falling from the sky, a fairly normal occurrence. Rather than think, “oh, gee; an acorn just fell out of the tree above me,” Henny Penny insisted on injecting histrionics into the mix. Continue reading →