Keyword: positive psychology

Smile or Die

Video Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist, Barbara Ehrenreich, explores the darker side of positive thinking. Ehrenreich finds a pattern in many aspects of life that demands mandatory optimism. Embedded in this is the idea that a person can change the physical world with their thoughts. According to Ehrenreich, there are two problem with this. Firstly, it is delusional and delusion is a mistake. She links delusions of positive psychology to the financial meltdown of...