<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft" style="float: left;" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/larry-winget-11.jpg" alt="Larry Winget - personal development speaker and author" width="95" height="110" />It doesn&#8217;t matter if the glass is half full or half empty.  The only thing that matters is whether it quenches your thirst.  In other words, does it work? </p>
<p>There are literally thousands of motivational speakers spouting ridiculous platitudes that do nothing more than make you feel good for the moment and have very little lasting effect.   They sound good, but they don&#8217;t work.   Let me prove it to you.  I bet you&#8217;ve heard these lines:  <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2011/10/is-the-glass-half-full-or-half-empty-who-cares-by-larry-winget/" title="Permanent Link: Is the glass half full or half empty?  Who cares! By Larry Winget" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":842,"date":"2011-10-28T03:24:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T08:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=842"},"modified":"2023-02-09T14:23:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T19:23:39","slug":"is-the-glass-half-full-or-half-empty-who-cares-by-larry-winget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/10\/is-the-glass-half-full-or-half-empty-who-cares-by-larry-winget\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the glass half full or half empty?  Who cares! By Larry Winget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/larry-winget-11.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Winget - personal development speaker and author\" width=\"95\" height=\"110\" \/>It doesn&#8217;t matter if the glass is half full or half empty.  The only thing that matters is whether it quenches your thirst.  In other words, does it work? <\/p>\n<p>There are literally thousands of motivational speakers spouting ridiculous platitudes that do nothing more than make you feel good for the moment and have very little lasting effect.   They sound good, but they don&#8217;t work.   Let me prove it to you.  I bet you&#8217;ve heard these lines:  <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/10\/is-the-glass-half-full-or-half-empty-who-cares-by-larry-winget\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Is the glass half full or half empty?  Who cares! By Larry Winget\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}