A book for people who can’t stand positive thinking: The Antidote, by Oliver Burkeman
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June 2, 2014 at 2:55pm
It was published a couple of years ago. Buy a copy for yourself and if you actually know anybody who reads, buy them one as a present.
Everybody else can watch the promo video.
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http://www.oliverburkeman.com/
http://www.theguardian.com/profile/oliverburkeman
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/thiscolumnwillchangeyourlife
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jun/22/the-antidote-oliver-burkeman-review
“Even deeper than the problems caused by the pervasive ideology of positive thinking is the assumption that it makes good sense to categorise all our thoughts as positive or negative in the first place.”
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/05/28/being-a-cynic-linked-to-tripled-risk-of-developing-dementia-finland-study-suggests/
And here’s something else to read as an antidote to positive thinking:
http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/amol-rajan-be-very-afraid-a-storm-is-coming-in-from-china-9452294.html
http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_harness_the_power_of_negative_thinking
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-positive-thinking-be-negative/
http://edge.org/panel/june-gruber-the-scientific-study-of-positive-emotion-headcon-13-part-ii
Have a look at these links too.
How true, Mr Burkeman. Reminds me of a cartoon where a young boy wrote the word “SIX” on a wall. An adult approached him and warned him not to write “SEX”. Unwittingly, the boy started to write “Sex” on every available wall.
There is also a similar book called. Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World by Barbara Ehrenreich.
The problem of positive thinking is that it often numbs our critical thinking ..