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