positive thinking

Narcissists or Necessary?

March 23, 2009

Several articles lately are backing my claim that kids are becoming spoiled, evil, narcissistic brats. Even CNN’s Jack Cafferty has included a section in his new book, Now or Never: Some parents still have this attitude that their kids are too special to be burdened by discipline. And the rest of us are supposed to [...]

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Let’s Get Realistic

March 13, 2009

One of the things I always hear after I speak is someone coming up to me, telling me what a great job I did, be it a keynote, breakout or training, and then telling me that “That’s not negative thinking, it realistic thinking.” They never describe positive thinking as realistic. To them there’s only positive [...]

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Buffett Forgot the Value of Negative Thinking

March 2, 2009

As I have mentioned before, I believe Warren Buffett is one of the best negative thinkers around. But even he admits a lapse of not using negative thinking cost him and his shareholders. From the Berkshire Hathaway : During 2008 I did some dumb things in investments. I made at least one major mistake of [...]

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Failure Friday: Jerry Seinfeld

February 13, 2009

Getting fired is never a good feeling. That doesn’t mean it can’t be useful. Look at Jerry Seinfeld. He used getting fired from one sitcom to learn how he wanted to create and control his own. From CNN: Remember the ABC sitcom “Benson”? Seinfeld undoubtedly does. Early in his career he had a small recurring [...]

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Media Monday: CNN’s iReporters are iDiots

February 9, 2009

Sometimes the internet can be a power for good in the world. Other times, I’m sure it will be the end of it.  CNN has the iReport, which allows anyone with a camera, to upload to their site. Great for major events happening, you can get different angles and reports. Not so good when the [...]

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The Audacity of Nope

January 8, 2009

Looks like even the hero of change and hope is going to be using some serious negative thinking to fix the US. Or at least hire someone who can do the negative thinking for him. From The Houston Chronicle (See sidebar): President-elect Barack Obama made good on a campaign promise Wednesday by introducing his choice [...]

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Enough with the Resolutions!

January 5, 2009

Here’s the main problem with coming up with a laundry list of New Year’s: We aim so high and make so many, we can’t possibly succeed. So apply a little negative thinking. We need to recognize that we can’t do all our goals all at once. We need to lower our expectations a bit this [...]

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The Audacity of a Dope

December 11, 2008

The governor of Illinois has a huge pair of stones to try and attempt to pull off selling a senate seat. Where depression can be attributed to too much negative thinking, arrogance is due to too much positive thinking. This guy never thought he’d get caught or worse, never thought what he was doing was [...]

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Settling for President

December 1, 2008

After watching Barack Obama on Barbara Walters last week, I realized even the hopeful have to use some negative thinking and look at reality to move forward. From Anatara News (yes, I had to go outside the US to find these quotes!) via ABC News: As a young boy, Barack Obama had different dreams about [...]

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China is not so different…

November 24, 2008

It’s not necessarily good to see, but it is a bit comforting to know that China college students are just as stupid at times as our own college students. Take the story of this idiot’s lack of foresight, overly positive attitude towards wild animals, from CNN: A college student in southern China was bitten by [...]

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