How to Be a Better Complainer

There’s a lot to gripe about. Here’s how to complain more productively.

Michael Thompson
Forge
Published in
4 min readSep 10, 2020

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A woman complains to her boyfriend while watching a movie on a laptop.
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A while back, when in-person gatherings were still a thing, my wife and I were hanging out with a couple we hadn’t seen in a while. When we said our goodbyes, I immediately began grumbling about how much they complained about everything.

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Michael Thompson
Forge
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