positive thinking

Does Attitude Effect Wellbeing?

January 4, 2012

One of the biggest thing that really gets my goat (for the record I do not own a goat) is people who insist on believing (and it’s not the believing part, but the insistence on telling other people) that a positive attitude can cure all their ills. It’s just not true. The condescension of positivity [...]

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Mean People Suck-ceed

August 17, 2011

Before you get all bent out of shape: This is not a post promoting being a jerk, being mean or rude. This post is to discredit the myth that only positive happy people succeed and anyone who exhibits a whiff of negative thinking or even less than positive thinking is doomed to failure. Sorry folks. [...]

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“Positive” Thinking = Setup for Failure

August 10, 2011

Being the go to guy on negative thinking for many of my friends and colleagues, I often get sent articles from various sources on negativity. Some are from acquaintences who don’t know me very well yet feel compelled to send articles on how I’m wrong. Others are from other speakers or friends sending articles that [...]

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Even Oprah Knows Her Limitations

April 25, 2011
http://youtu.be/Gg2-AtKvQeQ

In case you missed it (and if the ratings are any indication, you have) ABC is cancelling two longtime daytime soaps “All My Children” and “One Life to Live”. This sent many viewers into a tizzy. In fact, the soap opera viewers decided to go to the Queen of Daytime, Oprah Winfrey, to see if [...]

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Self-esteem: Teens feel great about themselves — but are they headed for a fall? – chicagotribune.com

July 6, 2010

Self-esteem: Teens feel great about themselves — but are they headed for a fall? – chicagotribune.com. This interesting article covers two topics I speak on in one tidy post. The fact that constructive, necessary Negative Thinking isn’t being taught to the younger generations.  This excerpt about how the reality of what “truths” we tell our [...]

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BP = Be Positive

June 10, 2010

Seems to me that this fiasco in the gulf is a combination of greed, carelessness and short-sightedness. All sprinkled with too much positive thinking. I was reading an article today from Newsweek (you can read entire article here) that interviews journalist Tom Bower about what went wrong with BP. One problem that he mentions is [...]

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Domino’s Embraces Negative Thinking!

January 4, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH5R56jILag]

I’ve never been a big fan of Dominos pizza. Of all the pizza chains, I’ve thought of their pizza as the worst. I am not alone in this opinion. People complained. More importantly, it seems, people stopped buying Dominos pizza. Domino’s could have continued to make crappy pizza and just hire a PR company to [...]

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Glad to be Sad?

November 4, 2009

No one likes to be sad. But being sad like many perceived negative thoughts and emotions can be beneficial in many ways! From Metro It turns out that glum people such as Jack Dee actually hold the key to success in life, because scientists say that bad moods improve memory, make you less gullible and [...]

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The Misery of Positive Thinking

July 9, 2009

I’ve been trying to explain for years that some of the self-help “positive thinking” is both unrealistic and not very help full.  TIME magazine (yes that TIME) published this article that show that telling yourself something you don’t believe in (which is what a lot of the hokey “self-help” bullshistic medicine is…hard to believe) actually [...]

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Over-optimistism Leads to Problems, Denial

April 23, 2009

If fatalistic thinking is the dangerous extreme of negativity, greed is the dangerous extreme of optimism. I’ve said over and over, we wished and hoped our way into this financial mess and many are trying to wish and hope their way out. In many respects this article by Knowledge@Wharton hit it on the head: “I [...]

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