Y’know the oft applied theme that you must be positive to achieve or get anywhere in life?\u00a0 Would you be surprised to know that it doesn’t always work and isn’t a blanket approach for everyone?<\/p>\n
“…If you want to sabotage defensive pessimists, just make them happy…”<\/p>\n
“…If you\u2019re the kind of person who\u2019s always telling other people to look on the bright side, you might want to reconsider. Whether people succeed is not a matter of thinking positively or negatively, but rather whether they choose the strategies that match their thinking styles. As psychologists Heidi Grant Halvorson and Tory Higgins write in Focus<\/em><\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s the fit that counts…\u201d”<\/p>\n “…And if you\u2019re a defensive pessimist, when preparing for a performance that really matters, you might want to list your weaknesses instead of your strengths, and drink a glass of anxiety rather than a shot of confidence.”<\/p>\n Whole article from Adam Grant here: https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/20131015140307-69244073-the-positive-power-of-negative-thinking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Y’know the oft applied theme that you must be positive to achieve or get anywhere in life?\u00a0 Would you be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivation"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seehear.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seehear.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seehear.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seehear.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seehear.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seehear.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/seehear.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seehear.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seehear.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seehear.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}