{"id":127,"date":"2009-09-04T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/?p=127"},"modified":"2009-09-04T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T17:53:00","slug":"the-problem-with-positive-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/the-problem-with-positive-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with positive thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seth Godin has an explanation why negative thinking is so popular when there is so much evidence that positive thinking is more beneficial.<\/p>\n

Seth’s Blog: The problem with positive thinking<\/a>: “All the evidence I’ve seen shows that positive thinking and confidence improves performance. In anything.” But …<\/p>\n

(Via Seth Godin’s blog<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Michael J. Fox<\/a>, a Canadian born in Edmonton, also did a book<\/a> and documentary<\/a> investigating optimism and made the observation that much more study has been done on depression than on people being optimistic.<\/p>\n

On this positive thinking theme, Rajesh Setty, has also written a book (Upbeat<\/a>) on the right attitude to have to thrive in tough times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seth Godin has an explanation why negative thinking is so popular when there is so much evidence that positive thinking is more beneficial. Seth’s Blog: The problem with positive thinking: “All the evidence I’ve seen shows that positive thinking and confidence improves performance. In anything.” But … (Via Seth Godin’s blog.) Michael J. Fox, a …<\/p>\n

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