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HTTP:: The Power of Positive Thinking A Multi Billion Dollar Scam
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Just because we think we can, or because we want to bad enough doesn’t mean we will actually get the thing we desire the most at one given moment. Yet, this is precisely what self-books are telling us every day, offering us quick and failure-proof methods of achieving whatever goal we have in mind, be it losing weight, being happy, getting rich or having a fulfilling spiritual life. It’s the myth of positive thinking at work and it constitutes the biggest financial scam of our times, Lorna Martin of the Daily Mail believes. To counteract our failing confidence or fear of the future â€" or, better said, to profit from it â€" we have created the positive-thinking myth that says that we could get to have anything we want, as long as we really want it and we concentrate hard enough to get it, but without actually doing something in that direction. It’s like the diet industry that tells us we can lose weight without moving a muscle or giving up an ounce of our favorite f!
ood, by just taking some pills â€" and, just like the diet industry, self-help books that promote positive thinking are not really meant to help us in any way, Martin argues. What they do, instead, is throw us into a vicious circle we might never break by selling us unrealistic expectations and maki...
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