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What’s Wrong With Positive – STP025
Episode 25 - This week, we challenge the idea that being 'positive' is always the best approach. In fact, we discovered some research that suggests it could even hold you back:
Some of the stuff in there is:
- Astonishment at our global listener group
- Me failing to greet our listeners in a few different languages
- The glass half full half empty scenario - it might not be helpful
- How social media can make us feel like our lives are half empty
- Our discovery of where we are in the world on income
- Try it yourself; you may be surprised - How Rich Am I?
- How positive thinking influenced my ability to pass a test
- Steve-in-the-field goes to the races to prove me wrong
- A Washington Post article - interview of Susan David challenging forced positive thinking
- Hidden Brain podcast by NPR - featuring professor Gabriele Oettingen
- Her article in the New York Post
- What Joel Minden says in Psychology Today - about challenging beliefs
- WOOP! - Here's an explainer video
- Professor Oettingen's talk at - New York University
- The Rethinking Positive Thinking book - UK link to purchase
- The Rethinking Positive Thinking book - US link to purchase