{"id":206,"date":"2026-04-14T06:01:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/?p=206"},"modified":"2026-04-14T06:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:02:07","slug":"stop-being-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"Stop Being Negative!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stop Being Negative!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ymqdPB0A5M?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this talk I get into why negativity is an incredibly destructive force in all of our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udf10 Website : https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art<br>\u270d\ufe0f Substack essays: https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.substack.com\/<br>\ud83c\udfa8 Painting &amp; demonstrations: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@MFrancis<br>\ud83d\udcda Book: https:\/\/www.landscapepainter.co.nz\/book<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key takeaways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stop it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Francis McCarthy<br>The Anti-Influencer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this talk I get into why negativity is an incredibly destructive force in all of our lives. Find more: \ud83c\udf10 Website : https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\u270d\ufe0f Substack essays: https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.substack.com\/\ud83c\udfa8 Painting &amp; demonstrations: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@MFrancis\ud83d\udcda Book: https:\/\/www.landscapepainter.co.nz\/book Key takeaways: Stop it. Michael Francis McCarthyThe Anti-Influencer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-talks","rsfv-has-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}