It's not my intention to write a 'self-help' piece... there are plenty of available on the subject....
My attempt is to think the opposite of one of the most popular theories of Norman Vincent Peale's "think positive" (a best seller "the power of positive thinking") .
I am not the first one who has attempted to look at the other side of this popular principle...please refer Google..
The Positive thinking insists you to take a conscious effort to convince yourself that things will turn out positive..!!!!
I don't disagree with it. I heard the experience of many people that it worked for them...
But not always..It may not work where a damage has already been happened...
My attempt is based on the following facts:
- life is uncertain; it creates insecurity;
- by default, our mind think negatively. (Example: when you receive the call from Boss, , do you ever think that it is to complement for a good job?? ..rather, the thought goes like this. . "Oh God... What's the last mail gone to her from my system??? )
- even we think positively, most of the time we absorb the reality of a bitter experience as it is..
- we tend to avoid confrontations with unpleasant thoughts;
A 'Worst Case
We can think the 'WCS' only when we think negatively..
One pioneer of the "negative path" was the
New York psychotherapist Albert Ellis, who died in 2007. In psychology, the people who follow the negative thinking process called as “defensive
pessimists.”
what I understand that the Negative thinking is not what you perceive a failure before doing; but to consider certain facts and circumstances which may go wrong while taking decisions...
Muhammed Rafeeque
Muhammed Rafeeque
