John Wolpert’s “But…” can help turn your doubts into breakthroughs

This is the story about “but.” Three letters, one word—and with the power to completely change the narrative of a sentence. 

“I love you, but…” “You’re a wonderful person, but…” “That won’t work, but…”

“You probably don’t like the buts,” says John Wolpert, the author of The Two But Rule: Turn Negative Thinking Into Positive Solutions. “But, you should.”

In fact, he adds that if you want to have the best chance of success in anything, everything you do, you need to “embrace a lot of buts...