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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

The New Blog Is Here




Finally, after weeks of work the new blog is up and running.

View it here ---> http://bodybydrock.wordpress.com

Navigation has been improved and a new "Members Only" section has been added. Read my posts, browse my articles and download some free stuff!

And don't worry, my old content will still be on this website. So keep linking and keep sharing.

Friday, September 4, 2009

The problem with positive thinking (according to Seth Godin)

Via Seth's Blog:

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 failed a difficult practice test.

No, positive thinking doesn't allow you to do anything, but it's been shown over and over again that it improves performance over negative thinking.

Key question then: why do smart people engage in negative thinking? Are they actually stupid?

The reason, I think, is that negative thinking feels good. In its own way, we believe that negative thinking works. Negative thinking feels realistic, or soothes our pain, or eases our embarrassment. Negative thinking protects us and lowers expectations.

In many ways, negative thinking is a lot more fun than positive thinking. So we do it.

If positive thinking was easy, we'd do it all the time. Compounding this difficulty is our belief that the easy thing (negative thinking) is actually appropriate, it actually works for us. The data is irrelevant. We're the exception, so we say.

Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.

Seth's right when he says positive thinking works. Seth is also right when he says positive thinking is hard.

You WILL succeed! You WILL reach your goals!

Even I fall into a spiral of negative thinking, so I'm taking Seth's words to heart: Thinking negative emotions is easy. Staying positive is more productive.