Monday, June 25, 2012

Happiness for people who can’t stand positive thinking.

Being a bit curmudgeonly about the whole Happiness industry, and having once been a contrarian guest on a west coast happiness radio program (whose message was to laugh and be positive ALL the time), I thought I should mention a nice book “The Antidote”, by Oliver Burkeman, on embracing uncertainty and rediscovering the power of negative thinking. He offers this animated trailer:

1 comment:

  1. Re-discover the power of negative thinking? Ummmmm I need to see proof that this has been effective with lots of supporting data;)

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