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HTTP:: Positive Thinking Doesn t Work
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There are so many self-help books out there that, were one to choose only a handful of the lot for some guidance and advice, one would have serious problems choosing. Judging from the message behind all of them, positive thinking is the key to success: a better social and professional position, more money, happiness, inner peace, love and everything else that is there to be desired. Performance Improvement Consultant Russell Bishop of the Huffington Post says in a new piece that the time has come to understand that positive thinking simply doesn’t work. Unless, of course, it does, he adds. The common-sense distinction most of us are not making when it comes to positive thinking is that reading books and self-help materials is not the same as learning from them and then acting accordingly. Most people, Bishop argues, are content to just stacking their shelves with this type of books, devouring them all and then going on about their life as if nothing happened in the mean!
while. They then declare that positive thinking doesn’t work â€" and they’re right in saying that, with the sole mention that they haven’t even tried it before pronouncing it a failure. Positive thinking must motivate us to change and get us acting towards it, Bishop says. “This is one of the most common personal traps...
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