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Originally Posted by impaul99  How do you know Positive Thinking works? I once was very positive about an exercise plan I was doing and yet I quit. So that proves that thinking that positive thinking works is just....well.... positive thinking! Why not think "realistically" so that you have a very good understanding of how the situation *really* is, or better yet why not think about the worse case scenario, so that you're prepared for the worse in case it comes?
I'm curious Markus, since you believe in positive thinking, how would you prove that it works to a pessimist? |
He has two choices:
He can tell himself that he won't succeed and thus sabotage himself.
He can tell himself that he will succeed and thus motivate himself.
Whether or not he now will succeed INDEED depends on a lot of factors. Just chanting: "I will succeed" isn't a guarantee for success. You have to act accordingly. Otherwise you will be naive and fail.
You have to combine Realism with Positive Thinking.
Dreaming big helps sometimes too and big dreams are often responsible for the greatest achievements, but this is deceptive. Because you later only hear from those few people who actually succeeded in realizing their dream, the others have vanished ...
And those that have succeeded didn't just wait for the Universe to create everything for themselves. THEY created what they needed themselves.