Try this for a more positive spin: Saying no to something means you’re saying yes to something else
There’s a model for understanding personalities based on the four elements of Creation: Fire, water, earth, and air. Every one of these four represents a certain personality type that can be used for good or for bad.
Fire goes upward, and burns whatever is in its path, and correspondingly, people with the eish personality are very passionate, motivated, growth-oriented, sometimes perfectionistic. They always want to do better and better.
People using the koach of fire at its highest level burn problems; they’re the ones who start organizations to fight poverty, to fight child abuse, and otherwise improve the community.
On its lowest level, the eish personality burns other people with criticism and judgment.
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