sethgodin.typepad.com — All the evidence I've seen shows that positive thinking and confidence improves performance. In anything. Give someone an easy math problem, watch them get it right and then they'll do better on the ensuing standardized test than someone who just...
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fbeaufortSep 4, 2009
The concept of positive & negative thinking is more complex than seems.Just one example for the positive thinking :)In France, like many other countries we've got an identity card, fill in with classical infos about its possessor, and there's your own picture. In France, there's an administrative recommendation about it : the person shouldn't express a happy or smiling face on it. The aim is that the picture looks like the more possible to people in real circumstances (everyday life).Indeed, like i often says to people, in real life, there's very few people always expressing a smiling or happy face. Actually just one category, those people are unfortunately, mentally disturbed ... :(So positive thinking isn't hard, but better a matter of how deep your brain could at the same time analyses & reacts to environment : being at the same time lucid & distanced from the facts :). In a word: Relativize.
jeteyeSep 4, 2009
Part of what is going on in the world economic stage is that en masse the world is in a Negative though spiral. It will take a few, persistant, and highly relevant individuals to keep telling people that the world is not going to end, and actually we will end up much better in the long run.Yes, staying positive is hard, but I have found that the people who tend to be successful in ANY endeavor they take, tend to stay positive almost 100% of the time. Hard:yes, Impossible: No. Of course the choice is yours.
trusonSep 4, 2009
When I let myself slip to the negative things just don't go as well. Staying positive somehow aligns me with a magical power that gives me energy, hope and inspiration.
coachthomSep 5, 2009
Ignorance is bliss! Many smart people engage in negativity simply because they recognize the real pitfalls and dangers that could occur, while often their less intelligent counterparts charge positively and boldly into battle (many emerging successful because of it). A smart student knows all they still don't know .. all that could be asked. It's a balance - to be grounded in reality, yet still believe in a positive outcome.
annafielerSep 9, 2009
The trouble with “yes we can” is that if you truly believe it, the logical conclusion for the next step has to be “yes we will”.Seth Godin's timely blog entry inspired me to explore the antidote to negative thinking in my recent blog post <a class="user" href="http://redwheelbarrows.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">http://redwheelbarrows.wordpress.com/</a>Thank you Seth for yet another thought-provoking post.