She has some very good points but I question aspects of what she says. She definitely is a skilled writer but uses this to cherry pick and manipulate many of the facts. The chapter on positive psychology is one example, it was terribly inaccurate. It’s a shame really because a lot of what she has to say is important but she is no expert in scientific writing.
The SECRET or it's source doesn't say to just sit and think without doing. You need a purpose and go for it! Idol wishes have no power. I don't know to many people that are attracted to negative people other than those that want to remain negative. Of course it's not magnetism because opposites attract!
I dont agree with her analysis of wall street. People didnt want to hear that wall street was going to crash because they were making money that why those people were fired, Not because they were being negative!
Positive thinking is no more than psychopathic authenticity which does not feel empathy or connection between desire, action and consequences beyond the profit margin; the harder they squeeze, the larger the hype. Most people are burnt out working for psychopaths, for literally nothing. Then they're accused of lacking motivation, drive, ambition ...when actually, seeing clearly determines that there is no 'bright side' when being spat out of the machine to languish in the gutter.
Excellent observation and delivery. Yes, it's been very effective in tyrannical states no less the USA when those ghastly Calvenists and Puritons deployed merciless misery on the kidnapped and enslaved British poor and dissident, in the name of obedience to god and his ordained 'servants'. Then in the 1800s, the gospel of positive thinking was preached from town to town as the American dream was instilled to produce eager, obedient slaves who worked for the promise of rewards ordained by god.
Positiveness has nothing to do with ignorance, laziness, pessimism, personal stagnation, and lack of action. Question and research everything, and prove it by TAKING ACTION YOURSELF. Be yourself the committed and honest scientist, and see TRUE concrete results. Stay hungry. Stay foolish. As Steve Jobs once said. ☼
Agreed, there are delusionary emotional states that one holds onto in order to stay in the game, with the group, survive, etc. There is on YouTube a very short and contributory video about happy and sad faces and what needs to happen for a person to be EMOTIONALLY GENUINE.
i think the mind is a powerful tool, but you can only change your own perspective of thinks not the things that may happen in an certain situation. But thats only my opinion :)
Its fine to believe in something and try to make it work. Time is key to success and being positive about it will help you last out that time of hard work.
But forcing people to become happy is insane... its irrational. Yes in a working environment you can try to make people happy.. but you don't threaten them to become what they are not.
In any workplace being positive about things can be productive.. and being negative to stop something bad like a economic collapse. Is also productive
I don't think this needs to be taken as far as she's taking it. People believe that they want think something into reality. All that really is, is if you are positive towards something happening constantly then you will move towards making that objective a reality. It doesn't just happen, but it is more likely that you will take steps to cause it to happen.
Don't confuse positive thinking with wishful thinking. If you get fired from a job and think to yourself "I'll never get a job with this bad economy". How motivated will you be to look for a job when you're already in the mindset that your going to fail? If you think to yourself "I'm going to get a job today, if not today, then the next day, if not, then the next day, etc" Then you will keep searching for that job until the mantra in your head changes to "This is hopeless. I give up".
Knowledge and wisdom..... awww darnit... must be some of that fancy liberal education..... Us real patirots don't care for knowledge... sure we might boost about how great america is off the face of liberal scientists.... but uhhhh ITS THE MUSLIMS... THEY ARE COMING TO GET US... quickly.. WAR WAR WAR!!!! (Yeah that should distract people for another 4 years before they start to demand reality)
I had Occupy Wallstreet on my mind during this entire video
A group of people calling out problems and getting yelled at, both by the rich and the people they were trying to help, for doing so
Like the guy who started the "We Are the 54%" Saying he had 3 jobs and could still barely provide for his family but you didn't see him complaining about it
Certainly for some people their thoughts do earn them 1 million dollars. That is a force of some kind. However, I agree with this woman, but let's not give up on our own personal power.
ONCE AGAIN an extreme point of view towards a way of thinking that requires balance. You have the right to feel however you want to feel about any situation BUT that doesn't means that being "REALISTIC" equals feeling bad for all the time you want. LISTEN TO YOUR FEELINGS & TAKE ACTION TOWARDS SOLUTIONS! : ALWAYS !! And while that happens make the most TO FEEL GOOD because doesn't matter what's going on in your life, work, family etc...feeling miserable doesn't help you to solve things either.
@chelilandia I think you're right, and we should always try to look for the answers to our solutions. But, sometimes it's the need of feeling down that can bring us up. I mean like, feelings are feelings. There's no switch, and sometimes you just can't help but feel down. Usually, a person would see the worse side of things rather than the bright. It's like we see the imperfections of our lives more. And, really "to get a rainbow, you must first pu
The absolute darkest side of optimism I've seen resides in every sign I see reading "Pray for our nation." If people want to take that advice, fine, but I'll be over here actually doing something.
Positivity is why people have been going into debt to buy education and housing. There are even "employment agencies" that are thriving now because so many unemployed people fall for their $200 a year fees. Gloom, pessimism, negativity and depression are all survival traits that prevent people from chasing after false hopes and dreams. The survivor of the future is not the one with a Ph.D. but the one without any debt that can live on a few thousand a year.
This woman thoroughly misconstrues the notion of what a free market is. Her take on the matter is disgusting. Most free market believers make no assumptions that a free market is the answer to everybody's problem all the time. Indeed, there is something known as "risk" that occurs in a free market. Businesses go belly up, people default on their debt because they cannot pay it, etc.
@kroovyandcal She's misrepresents nothing. She's criticizing those that misrepresent the idea of a free market by claiming that a completely free market will "work itself out."
@MissAshley42 On listening to it more carefully, her criticism is that whole generations get crushed "along the way" as the free market works itself out. She thoroughly advocates intervention, though. Intervention in today's America is done by the people that put the free market in the predicament in the first place. (the banks)
Everyone has a longitude and latitude. But with the right discipline, you can choose your attitude and altitude. I agree with some parts, like fostering collective realism with neutral thinking. But additionally, neutral analysis (through meditation) of your positive or negative thoughts,helps clear your subconscious mind of wounds (blocks) that keep you from rising to your true highest purpose (offering of your greatest gift). Know yourself and conquer your mind & you will conquer the world.
I disagree with Ms. Ehrenreich's ideas explained here. She makes 2 major mistakes: (1) the idea of the New Age philosophy is not scalable. It may work at an individual level while it would make no sense at the society level. (2) The "optimism" popular in totalitarian regimes like USSR was a propaganda move as opposed to a mindset of the individuals. It has nothing to do with the New Age philosophy. Not even close. Ms. Ehrenreich confuses a misrepresentation with a sincere positive attitude.
wait! i object to this woman's ideas....right at the end there: ending unnecessary suffering: how much of the suffering in our own lives is unnecessary? impatience, intolerance, hatred, anxiety....isn't that individual? and isn't the collective made up of every INDIVIDUAL?
In government organizations in the USA people who project positive ideas about their agency including management officials, and are good looking are promoted faster and go higher in their organization than people who are not as attrractive and project less enthusiasm for their bureaucracy formal organization. We need better criteriion to evaluate talent,and less groupthink. Government officials in their agencies are usually autocratic leaders. We need democratic leadership!
In government organizations in the USA people who project positive ideas about their agency including management officials, and are good looking are promoted faster and go higher in their organization than people who are not as attrractive and project less enthusiasm for their bureaucracy formal organization. We need better criteriion to evaluate talent,and less groupthink. Government officials in their agencies are usually autocratic leaders.We need mre democratic leadership!
I would say that your thoughts cannot change THE world. However, your thoughts do change YOUR world. I.e. I stub my toe and have the thought process "ouch, stupid table who put that there, the idiots". Or I stub my toe and have the thought process "Ha, silly me". The later in my opinion is far more pleasant, and doesn't lead to lingering resentment. The choice is of course yours. :o)
When I went to America last summer one of the things that really stunned me were "why are all the people smiling at me?" And I asked my dad and my stepmom (both american) and they told me: "that is because if you smile you won't get a problem." I don't think thats quite right to presume that if you just smile the world would change. If people were to smile at me at home (in Austria) I would look the other way because it makes me feel uncomfortable or just stare back or through them.
I developed the same outlook as Barbara Ehrenreich who explores the darker side of positive thinking around the 7th grade when I was twelve (12) years old at Charles MacLay Junior High School in Pacoima California.
Post Script: Moderate optimism is a goal that will always be difficult, but worth it just like Aristotle Golden Mean regarding becoming angry at the right time with the right people
Tomorrow-Tue,3 Jan 2012 is my Forty-Seventh (47th) birth day so I will y'all a Happy New Year!!!
What could be 'cleverer' as a way of quelling dissent than to tell people that all of their problems (poverty, unemployment, et cetera) were caused by somebody else and not to take some kind of action or responsibility in their life??
I think if teachers taught like this, i would be passing everything. It's so much easier to understand not only hearing the words but seeing it drawn out in a way that's easy to comprehend.
When she began criticizing Bush falsely (he was never a cheerleader in college, but during his senior year at an all-male boarding school) while also completely ignoring the much more recent and pronounced magical thinking and positive irrationality demonstrated by the Obama administration, she lost a bit of credibility. Then she spun off into associating positive thinking movement with market freedom, and posited collectivist technocracy as the cure. Now THAT is magical thinking.
I was with you until you started talking about how the free market works. You clearly don't understand market fundamentals. It has nothing to do with positivism.
@haz464 You must be some sort of Grade-A idiot. The original commenter didn't know what the "2006 Tsunami" was in reference to. I obliged an answer. There's no controversy to argue over. Did your mom take thalidomide when she was pregnant with you, "bro"?
@haz464 It's like you're just parroting stock, by-the-book internet insults now, because you want to save face or something and "win" some imaginary argument that exists only in your head. I know you're anonymous and all online, but even so, don't you feel even a tiny bit embarrassed for all your dumb posts?
@haz464 Ah, the well-worn "You know all that time I dedicated towards demonstrating what a dummy I am earlier? I was jus trollin u/it wuz a social experiment". You got me, you got into my head so bad that this morning I went beserk and killed my co-workers, as well as Mrs. Boner, and even little Chad, Jr. (Jr. actually got hate-fucked first, you messed my psyche so bad). And now, you Machiavellian trolly mastermind, you've even made me reply like you predicted. Get out of my head! Fist-waving!
@MrChadBoner Unwritten rule of the internet: pick your fights. Most people aren't worth your time if you can offer a well-thought out argument. I've stopped continuing arguments on the internet (and generally in real life) and I'm much happier for it I think.
@Olly999 I don't mind insult fests, because those are cathartically fun on some level. It'd just be nice at some point to do it with someone who can actually keep up instead of someone who just spouts obtuse, cliched garbage like this "haz23432" person.
@Zaywex Meh, I've trolled people hard over the years, and it takes a little bit more wit and skill than just making yourself look hopelessly retarded. Trolling is a true art form, and too many neckbeards hide behind their shitposting by proclaiming themselves to be some internet Andy Kaufman or something when they get called out. Just sayin'.
To quote Anonymous: "A realist is a man who has had his rose-tinted glasses ripped off, thrown to the ground, smashed to bits and stomped on; immediately improving his vision."
Or: "A pessimist sees a half empty glass; an optimist sees a half full glass; and a realist sees a glass at half volume."
Realism is merely calling something as it is. No sugarcoating, not holes in the bucket. Just straight up.
This video started off promisingly, stating things we already know that's wrong but it ended with nothing realistically positive to offer. Failed unimaginative 60's concepts repeated once again.
Realism is a great theory to follow, but to accomplish anything you have to have a drive or motivation to change something, and that can't be created by looking at both negative and positive sides equally. You have to create a drive, and be full invested on one side of the problem to do anything. If we stay indifferent, we will stay in one place. We need a moderation of everything.
I disagree about the invisible hand. I don't think it is optimistic or pessimistic. I mean, look at the bitch slap that it's giving the USA these days.
Actually I believe it is not so much the 'Law of Attraction that is condemned here, but the way 'The Secret' conveyed it. There is a huge difference between 'The Secret' and the original conveyors of the law, Esther and Jerry Hicks. The glass can be indeed half full or half empty, without even mentioning that the one would be positive or respectively negative. Long before corporatism a wise man said 'The World Is As You See It', triggering emotions in either direction.
Personally I came to the conclusion that life per se is a win/win situation. You create positive circumstances for your self - you are a happy camper. You create negative circumstances in your life, you experience spiritual growth. Flat Earth - Round Earth - Quantum Earth is the timeline, not depending on what people think about it and that's missing in this feature. But hey, 'It's Just A Ride!!!'
I think she's mistaken about what us nut jobs think is going on with quantum theory and "the secret" lol, but I see us on the quantum level as really one thing, playing at separateness, getting lost in the world, but really, just energy. One. Tsunamis as a point of "see look at your theory now" doesn't really matter. the one energy set thins thing in motion, it's responsible for everything- you, me, tsunamis. Death is terrible only because we're lost in this world and have attachments.
@ihventura Both view points are missing the real McCoy here. It's called INTUITION. The connection with Your inner voice. So many people were staring at the Tsunami in disbelief, glued to the ground. That has to do with 'reality tv', were things like that happen without getting wet feet. Real life is different. No commercial break before you drown. Naivety can not be blamed on Universal forces. People are brainwashed to discard their instincts. Because 'God's in Control', right?
Thank you Barbara for pointing out the stupidity some people have. They just don't understand reality. There's a difference between being good and ignoring reality.
Barbara is wrong here. The basis of positive thinking is accepting misfortune, seeing it as a challenge, and working to correct the problem. The situations that she describes, like a tsunami or mass layoff, are completely out of an individuals control. It doesn't matter whether they think positively or not, the disrupting event has occurred, and they must mobilize themselves to deal with it. Fear, negativity, and hopelessness immobilize. Hope, belief in yourself, and positivity mobilizes us.
I really agree, as distressing as it is, nobody wants to listen to the person who thinks realistically (it's the same thing as pessimism to some people), they all want smiling yes-men. One of my college communication courses had list of "Types of unhelpful people in meetings"; one of them was called "Dr. No" and was described as the type of person who would always 'bring down the group' by looking at the possible downsides or risks of the endeavor.
@NocturnalCrab2 That takes me back. I minored in comm and took a class full of that kind of working professionals' pseudo-psychological and pseudo-philosophical crap. The professor told lots of smutty sitcom-like jokes, and the class was an easy 'A,' and so most of the other students (sadly) ate up everything taught in that class, while I sat by the ~150 students laughing at her jokes hating almost every minute of it. Nothing soured my impressions of comm more than that class.
@NocturnalCrab2 This is exactly what the video is trying to point out. Because of lack of realists in society, we manage to make poor decisions and do not weigh up the negatives of the actions we take. It's all well and good surrounding yourself with positive minded people, but there is a difference between positive in going forward, and absent-minded positiveness
i think she didnt get it...its about thinking positively and drag new opportunities to you...so you can have what you want if you take that chance and beat the crap out of it. its not like you need money so they fall from heaven on you....
What really frightens me about some of the posts defending the positive thought school is the rage bubbling just below the surface. Seems suppression of true feelings and reality inevitably leads to an explosion - or meltdown. Hence the phrase, "sorry to burst your bubble."
I'm amazed such a positive human emotion as hope can be used to give a message that contrasts so severely with the original thought.
I think this video is more a message of how those in positions of power can abuse human altruism and hope much more than the idea these feelings are destructive.
As theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli would say "It's not even wrong". The very optimism that she rails against is what is required to believe in the ability to change the world. Losing ones middle management job is exactly the kind of think that could cause one to realize that you were living in a world of mediocrity that one had learned to accept as "normal". At it's core optimism is unreasonable expectations and sure those can be a twin edged sword but on balance it is a force for good.
I think she looks too much into the PR and too little into the depth of the debates on this. Shouting about quantum physics as an excuse and mixing magnetic heads in all of this is irrelevant. They are all close to conspiracy theories.
If I'd do the same to her speech, it'd be: "Barbara Ehrenreich's theory is only her excuse to complain more!" - I'm just being a realist, not delusional. ;D
its cruel to try and cheer people up and make them happy? .. and she says that her background isn't science, yet she feels like she has the authority to call quantum physics pseudoscience? Based on her tone of voice she seems bitter and jaded with the idea of positive thinking.
I understand her perspective of optimism can be used as a form of social control, yet I think optimism can be powerful when it is grounded, when you can see things for what it is, and then choose to see things in a positive light. Just my two cents.
@ManUtdRules1 Well, yeah, but that's exactly what she's saying when she makes the "radical" suggestion of realism. You just defined it, sort of. She says that she doesn't advocate gloom, and depression, and pessimism, but encourages the behavior of looking at one's problems clearly (aka NOT delusional-ly), and then finding real-world solutions to those problems. REALISM.
I love your videos, but I've noticed that you sometimes make small mistakes (a couple times you said your instead of you're). No big deal, it's just a pet peeve and makes them look a little less tidy than they could.
No, optimism simply creates a confirmation bias of positivity within a person, and people who believe that it's not the end of the world are more likely to act to help themselves out of it. It's the Skinner's Box experiment. A person who feels like they have control will look for options and channels through which to act. A person who is pessimistic and feels they have no control or alternative to depression and/or pain will not look for ways to help theirself.
@bookwyrm18 Well said! Confirmation bias is ongoing in everyone, no matter what their beliefs. Believe that the world is crushing you, and you naturally overlook possibilities to get to a better spot in the world.
She also assumed that the market correcting itself is somehow a form of positive thinking. Markets correcting themselves is not a positive thinking thing but an observable and quantifiable phenomena (notice I did not state that is was a fact). I agree with her to an extent about positive thinking. I like to think of myself as an optimist-realist. I always look for ways to improve and seek beauty, but I do not turn a blind eye to danger or reality.
She fails to mention the governmental forcing of positive thinking by making banks to make bad loans in relation to the 2007 Melt Down. The cause is rooted in the government. Still, I like the overall message.
The secret can work for some but it's not for everyone, It certainly doesn't reveal the whole secret like it makes out and just skims the surface of what was hidden from us. An you can't always bame people for not creating a better reality for themselves as sometimes they don't even know what reality they should create or how. So they are stuck in the vibration of someone elses version or plan for reality that only a clear bright dream for the future will help.
What's up with the polarization in the comments? People seem to be aggressively defending positive thinking while being dismissive of Ehrenreich, and vice versa. Also, there's little point in arguing her bias here, mainly because everyone in here has it.
As always I believe that what matters the most is to recognize that there are two sides to every coin and a balance between positive thinking and realism is very important. Sometimes you just have to acknowledge that things are in the shit.
It's a pity that she has misrepresented positive psychology and probably a number of other facts - to drive her argument. Maybe on purpose, maybe she just doesn't have a clue.... But hey, free speech and all that.... she's allowed to present have a poorly researched argument that makes her look like someone with a chip on her shoulder...
This video is a load of progressive "we are smarter than you" crap! This entire thing is simply an anti-capitalist, anti-US (note the anti-Bush, Iraq war, etc.) Not to mention the undertone that Americans are "Dilusional" and being programmed by the corporations to be that way.
I saw this propoganda being played on a ferry trip in Argentina. I should point out that the Ultra progressives in power there find this kind of image ideal for programming Argentinians to want to be more like the USSR than the US. The woman totally misses the idea of being optimistic.
Positive thinking had nothing to do with the financial collapse of the financial markets. The truth of the power of thought is that if you take a negative approach to life, you will always find your road more difficult. With the right attitude, much can be accomplished. Thinking positive about my capability is what brought me from homeless to carrying three college degrees and working all over the world.
Positive thinking had nothing to do with the financial collapse of the financial markets. The truth of the power of thought is that if you take a negative approach to life, you will always find your road more difficult. With the right attitude, much can be accomplished. Thinking positive about my capability is what brought me from homeless to carrying three college degrees and working all over the world.
I don't think people in Wall st. were fired because of 'negative thinking'. If I were someone who benefits greatly from financial collapse, I would fire that guy pronto.
The problem with 'thinking' and 'talking' in general is that many do not EXECUTE on what is thought or talked about. Knowing the right thing to do or saying what the best solution to a problem is holds little calue next to DOING what needs to be done to fix what is wrong.
She has a point. But Quantum physics is just what western scientists call meta-physics. And, really, meta-physics is just another name for 'magic.' Again, I see her point and I agree. BUT, concentrated thought can move mountains. Real talk. Doesn't have to positive or negative... but it's a lost skill.
RSA - this is a job well done!!!! Keep it going and let the world know- that we have a great chance of restoring our sanity as a species! Cheers!!!! Love and Light!
Nobody ever said one can just THINK oneself to success; no one. One needs to take action, This "acclaimed" person seems to be a professional feminist and depressed dilletante. Apparently depressed and depressing. Barely connected to real world. Reminds me of Chomsky, professional linguist and Collectivist propagandist. I know a few nutty wacko feminist who worship this negativist psudeo-intellectual.
@jam11049 Spelling? OMG! Typical liberal response. I would rather have poor spelling than be illogical or lacking in common sense. I am informed in this area, and am helping you to better understand left wing / feminist propaganda techniques.
I was just getting fed up with this Positive Deluding our culture seems to be going through over here. I found this and had an ACTUAL positive experience, heh. I'm sharing this. Thank you very much!
waahhh... jadi lebih semangat nih setelah liat video ini... ^.^
terimakasih....
TiestMD 1 day ago
She has some very good points but I question aspects of what she says. She definitely is a skilled writer but uses this to cherry pick and manipulate many of the facts. The chapter on positive psychology is one example, it was terribly inaccurate. It’s a shame really because a lot of what she has to say is important but she is no expert in scientific writing.
whicheverwayable 1 day ago
The SECRET or it's source doesn't say to just sit and think without doing. You need a purpose and go for it! Idol wishes have no power. I don't know to many people that are attracted to negative people other than those that want to remain negative. Of course it's not magnetism because opposites attract!
autompd 1 day ago
I dont agree with her analysis of wall street. People didnt want to hear that wall street was going to crash because they were making money that why those people were fired, Not because they were being negative!
annieB5575 1 day ago
Positive thinking is no more than psychopathic authenticity which does not feel empathy or connection between desire, action and consequences beyond the profit margin; the harder they squeeze, the larger the hype. Most people are burnt out working for psychopaths, for literally nothing. Then they're accused of lacking motivation, drive, ambition ...when actually, seeing clearly determines that there is no 'bright side' when being spat out of the machine to languish in the gutter.
DaftAida 1 day ago
Excellent observation and delivery. Yes, it's been very effective in tyrannical states no less the USA when those ghastly Calvenists and Puritons deployed merciless misery on the kidnapped and enslaved British poor and dissident, in the name of obedience to god and his ordained 'servants'. Then in the 1800s, the gospel of positive thinking was preached from town to town as the American dream was instilled to produce eager, obedient slaves who worked for the promise of rewards ordained by god.
DaftAida 1 day ago
Positiveness has nothing to do with ignorance, laziness, pessimism, personal stagnation, and lack of action. Question and research everything, and prove it by TAKING ACTION YOURSELF. Be yourself the committed and honest scientist, and see TRUE concrete results. Stay hungry. Stay foolish. As Steve Jobs once said. ☼
racingracing 1 day ago
Amen, amen, amen!
JuliaB1955 1 day ago
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ckpeltomaa 2 days ago
Agreed, there are delusionary emotional states that one holds onto in order to stay in the game, with the group, survive, etc. There is on YouTube a very short and contributory video about happy and sad faces and what needs to happen for a person to be EMOTIONALLY GENUINE.
ckpeltomaa 2 days ago
i think the mind is a powerful tool, but you can only change your own perspective of thinks not the things that may happen in an certain situation. But thats only my opinion :)
iLostMeBrain 2 days ago
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hatfieldlainall 5 days ago
Its fine to believe in something and try to make it work. Time is key to success and being positive about it will help you last out that time of hard work.
But forcing people to become happy is insane... its irrational. Yes in a working environment you can try to make people happy.. but you don't threaten them to become what they are not.
In any workplace being positive about things can be productive.. and being negative to stop something bad like a economic collapse. Is also productive
revron77 5 days ago in playlist RSA Animates
I don't think this needs to be taken as far as she's taking it. People believe that they want think something into reality. All that really is, is if you are positive towards something happening constantly then you will move towards making that objective a reality. It doesn't just happen, but it is more likely that you will take steps to cause it to happen.
Shad12Dash 5 days ago
Don't confuse positive thinking with wishful thinking. If you get fired from a job and think to yourself "I'll never get a job with this bad economy". How motivated will you be to look for a job when you're already in the mindset that your going to fail? If you think to yourself "I'm going to get a job today, if not today, then the next day, if not, then the next day, etc" Then you will keep searching for that job until the mantra in your head changes to "This is hopeless. I give up".
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datpoetchic7 1 week ago
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erikjames47 1 week ago
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Knowledge and wisdom..... awww darnit... must be some of that fancy liberal education..... Us real patirots don't care for knowledge... sure we might boost about how great america is off the face of liberal scientists.... but uhhhh ITS THE MUSLIMS... THEY ARE COMING TO GET US... quickly.. WAR WAR WAR!!!! (Yeah that should distract people for another 4 years before they start to demand reality)
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BeverleyAvaloi256 1 week ago
I had Occupy Wallstreet on my mind during this entire video
A group of people calling out problems and getting yelled at, both by the rich and the people they were trying to help, for doing so
Like the guy who started the "We Are the 54%" Saying he had 3 jobs and could still barely provide for his family but you didn't see him complaining about it
unorthodoxJ 1 week ago
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atify73 1 week ago
Certainly for some people their thoughts do earn them 1 million dollars. That is a force of some kind. However, I agree with this woman, but let's not give up on our own personal power.
HairLikeCottonCandy 1 week ago
regulate your optimism :D
TheJovanist 1 week ago
ONCE AGAIN an extreme point of view towards a way of thinking that requires balance. You have the right to feel however you want to feel about any situation BUT that doesn't means that being "REALISTIC" equals feeling bad for all the time you want. LISTEN TO YOUR FEELINGS & TAKE ACTION TOWARDS SOLUTIONS! : ALWAYS !! And while that happens make the most TO FEEL GOOD because doesn't matter what's going on in your life, work, family etc...feeling miserable doesn't help you to solve things either.
chelilandia 1 week ago
@chelilandia I think you're right, and we should always try to look for the answers to our solutions. But, sometimes it's the need of feeling down that can bring us up. I mean like, feelings are feelings. There's no switch, and sometimes you just can't help but feel down. Usually, a person would see the worse side of things rather than the bright. It's like we see the imperfections of our lives more. And, really "to get a rainbow, you must first pu
Philo988 1 week ago
How to gain such amazing skills at painting? Schools?
Brittanionf529 2 weeks ago
The absolute darkest side of optimism I've seen resides in every sign I see reading "Pray for our nation." If people want to take that advice, fine, but I'll be over here actually doing something.
MissAshley42 2 weeks ago
@MissAshley42 ...I agree BUT why not BOTH? God helps those who help themselves. :)
InsideOUT37 1 week ago
Hi,
can someone please tell me how i can have a video made in this format??
Thanks!!
GengisTV 2 weeks ago
@GengisTV Contact Cognitive Media, please go via the contact form on their website.
theRSAorg 2 weeks ago
very confusing to me
SpicyHam 2 weeks ago
Positivity is why people have been going into debt to buy education and housing. There are even "employment agencies" that are thriving now because so many unemployed people fall for their $200 a year fees. Gloom, pessimism, negativity and depression are all survival traits that prevent people from chasing after false hopes and dreams. The survivor of the future is not the one with a Ph.D. but the one without any debt that can live on a few thousand a year.
SacredTutu 2 weeks ago
This woman thoroughly misconstrues the notion of what a free market is. Her take on the matter is disgusting. Most free market believers make no assumptions that a free market is the answer to everybody's problem all the time. Indeed, there is something known as "risk" that occurs in a free market. Businesses go belly up, people default on their debt because they cannot pay it, etc.
kroovyandcal 2 weeks ago
@kroovyandcal She's misrepresents nothing. She's criticizing those that misrepresent the idea of a free market by claiming that a completely free market will "work itself out."
MissAshley42 2 weeks ago
@MissAshley42 On listening to it more carefully, her criticism is that whole generations get crushed "along the way" as the free market works itself out. She thoroughly advocates intervention, though. Intervention in today's America is done by the people that put the free market in the predicament in the first place. (the banks)
kroovyandcal 2 weeks ago
look at the persons hand and the voice.
MegaLance77 2 weeks ago
Everyone has a longitude and latitude. But with the right discipline, you can choose your attitude and altitude. I agree with some parts, like fostering collective realism with neutral thinking. But additionally, neutral analysis (through meditation) of your positive or negative thoughts,helps clear your subconscious mind of wounds (blocks) that keep you from rising to your true highest purpose (offering of your greatest gift). Know yourself and conquer your mind & you will conquer the world.
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I disagree with Ms. Ehrenreich's ideas explained here. She makes 2 major mistakes: (1) the idea of the New Age philosophy is not scalable. It may work at an individual level while it would make no sense at the society level. (2) The "optimism" popular in totalitarian regimes like USSR was a propaganda move as opposed to a mindset of the individuals. It has nothing to do with the New Age philosophy. Not even close. Ms. Ehrenreich confuses a misrepresentation with a sincere positive attitude.
alexshchet 3 weeks ago in playlist RSA Animates
wait! i object to this woman's ideas....right at the end there: ending unnecessary suffering: how much of the suffering in our own lives is unnecessary? impatience, intolerance, hatred, anxiety....isn't that individual? and isn't the collective made up of every INDIVIDUAL?
SpartanGraffiti 3 weeks ago
This guy is amazing at drawing!
alexc475 3 weeks ago
i bet that hairy hand is not Barbara Ehrenreich
Overlorddz 3 weeks ago
Use the force n.n
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In government organizations in the USA people who project positive ideas about their agency including management officials, and are good looking are promoted faster and go higher in their organization than people who are not as attrractive and project less enthusiasm for their bureaucracy formal organization. We need better criteriion to evaluate talent,and less groupthink. Government officials in their agencies are usually autocratic leaders. We need democratic leadership!
mdandrea39 3 weeks ago
In government organizations in the USA people who project positive ideas about their agency including management officials, and are good looking are promoted faster and go higher in their organization than people who are not as attrractive and project less enthusiasm for their bureaucracy formal organization. We need better criteriion to evaluate talent,and less groupthink. Government officials in their agencies are usually autocratic leaders.We need mre democratic leadership!
mdandrea39 3 weeks ago
Callousness was misspelled.
MrJasonfkg 3 weeks ago
I would say that your thoughts cannot change THE world. However, your thoughts do change YOUR world. I.e. I stub my toe and have the thought process "ouch, stupid table who put that there, the idiots". Or I stub my toe and have the thought process "Ha, silly me". The later in my opinion is far more pleasant, and doesn't lead to lingering resentment. The choice is of course yours. :o)
ZarniwoopUK1 3 weeks ago 3
Every time I see something like this, I feel grateful to have interned at a really awesome non-profit research center.
Zaywex 4 weeks ago
When I went to America last summer one of the things that really stunned me were "why are all the people smiling at me?" And I asked my dad and my stepmom (both american) and they told me: "that is because if you smile you won't get a problem." I don't think thats quite right to presume that if you just smile the world would change. If people were to smile at me at home (in Austria) I would look the other way because it makes me feel uncomfortable or just stare back or through them.
trottoirisurban 4 weeks ago
This vid is popular on Buenos Aires
ogelioholde921r 4 weeks ago
I developed the same outlook as Barbara Ehrenreich who explores the darker side of positive thinking around the 7th grade when I was twelve (12) years old at Charles MacLay Junior High School in Pacoima California.
Post Script: Moderate optimism is a goal that will always be difficult, but worth it just like Aristotle Golden Mean regarding becoming angry at the right time with the right people
Tomorrow-Tue,3 Jan 2012 is my Forty-Seventh (47th) birth day so I will y'all a Happy New Year!!!
airforcemax 4 weeks ago
8:11 - "*YOUR* fired."
hnnnnnngggg!
ChoppyLaStatch 1 month ago
I have a better name for this:
"positive defeatism"
seanmathews009 1 month ago
This isn't animation this is speeding up film while someone draws.
Jonathansmovies 1 month ago
What could be 'cleverer' as a way of quelling dissent than to tell people that all of their problems (poverty, unemployment, et cetera) were caused by somebody else and not to take some kind of action or responsibility in their life??
YeahItsMilo 1 month ago 3
I think if teachers taught like this, i would be passing everything. It's so much easier to understand not only hearing the words but seeing it drawn out in a way that's easy to comprehend.
Raiseagpk 1 month ago 5
6:34 How did he write like that??
CWhit555 1 month ago
Hee hee. Got an ad for free psychic readings. Would you call that an ad fail?
18booma 1 month ago
When she began criticizing Bush falsely (he was never a cheerleader in college, but during his senior year at an all-male boarding school) while also completely ignoring the much more recent and pronounced magical thinking and positive irrationality demonstrated by the Obama administration, she lost a bit of credibility. Then she spun off into associating positive thinking movement with market freedom, and posited collectivist technocracy as the cure. Now THAT is magical thinking.
mcamiano 1 month ago
I was with you until you started talking about how the free market works. You clearly don't understand market fundamentals. It has nothing to do with positivism.
jskelton440 1 month ago
luxure is fail...really need last car f year ??? hehe go work and hold smile....try it
32120Dns 1 month ago
The fridge is called SMEG, classic XD
ChewyMeatBall 1 month ago 2
Tsunami 2006?
cokesoda19 1 month ago
@cokesoda19 It hit your country, Indonesia. You don't remember that?
MrChadBoner 1 month ago 2
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@MrChadBoner That was in 2004...
haz464 1 month ago
@haz464 And there was one in Indonesia in 2006. Use google and stop wasting my time.
MrChadBoner 1 month ago 5
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@MrChadBoner Yes let's include every insignificant tsunami in the world, keep trying bro and stop wasting my time.
haz464 1 month ago
@haz464 You must be some sort of Grade-A idiot. The original commenter didn't know what the "2006 Tsunami" was in reference to. I obliged an answer. There's no controversy to argue over. Did your mom take thalidomide when she was pregnant with you, "bro"?
MrChadBoner 1 month ago 4
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@MrChadBoner Why are you so angsty bro? How's that aspergers working out for ya champ?
haz464 1 month ago
@haz464 It's like you're just parroting stock, by-the-book internet insults now, because you want to save face or something and "win" some imaginary argument that exists only in your head. I know you're anonymous and all online, but even so, don't you feel even a tiny bit embarrassed for all your dumb posts?
MrChadBoner 4 weeks ago 5
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@MrChadBoner Hahahaha keep playing into my hands like a little trolled fag. Stay mad :D Go on and reply you dumbass :)))
haz464 4 weeks ago
@haz464 Ah, the well-worn "You know all that time I dedicated towards demonstrating what a dummy I am earlier? I was jus trollin u/it wuz a social experiment". You got me, you got into my head so bad that this morning I went beserk and killed my co-workers, as well as Mrs. Boner, and even little Chad, Jr. (Jr. actually got hate-fucked first, you messed my psyche so bad). And now, you Machiavellian trolly mastermind, you've even made me reply like you predicted. Get out of my head! Fist-waving!
MrChadBoner 3 weeks ago
@haz464 Cancerkilling/b/.
Fr0hst 3 weeks ago
@MrChadBoner Unwritten rule of the internet: pick your fights. Most people aren't worth your time if you can offer a well-thought out argument. I've stopped continuing arguments on the internet (and generally in real life) and I'm much happier for it I think.
Olly999 4 weeks ago
@Olly999 I don't mind insult fests, because those are cathartically fun on some level. It'd just be nice at some point to do it with someone who can actually keep up instead of someone who just spouts obtuse, cliched garbage like this "haz23432" person.
MrChadBoner 3 weeks ago
@MrChadBoner
Rule number one of the internet: Don't feed the troll.
Zaywex 4 weeks ago
@Zaywex Meh, I've trolled people hard over the years, and it takes a little bit more wit and skill than just making yourself look hopelessly retarded. Trolling is a true art form, and too many neckbeards hide behind their shitposting by proclaiming themselves to be some internet Andy Kaufman or something when they get called out. Just sayin'.
MrChadBoner 3 weeks ago 3
The glass is neither half full nor half empty its completly full at all times whether with liquid or air its fucking full!
1guy5girls 1 month ago
Collective = fascism.
bowtie728 1 month ago
To quote Anonymous: "A realist is a man who has had his rose-tinted glasses ripped off, thrown to the ground, smashed to bits and stomped on; immediately improving his vision."
Or: "A pessimist sees a half empty glass; an optimist sees a half full glass; and a realist sees a glass at half volume."
Realism is merely calling something as it is. No sugarcoating, not holes in the bucket. Just straight up.
agnosticChurchworker 1 month ago 9
realism= a balance between postivety and negativety
MEGAGUY21 1 month ago
This video started off promisingly, stating things we already know that's wrong but it ended with nothing realistically positive to offer. Failed unimaginative 60's concepts repeated once again.
spacefor1 1 month ago
capitalism rocks
Voy2378 1 month ago
@ 9:50 she says "its the POWERLESSNESS" not perilousness...that's not a real word. But pretty drawings!
sisterthatcares 1 month ago
Realism is a great theory to follow, but to accomplish anything you have to have a drive or motivation to change something, and that can't be created by looking at both negative and positive sides equally. You have to create a drive, and be full invested on one side of the problem to do anything. If we stay indifferent, we will stay in one place. We need a moderation of everything.
GlorGlor909 1 month ago
I disagree about the invisible hand. I don't think it is optimistic or pessimistic. I mean, look at the bitch slap that it's giving the USA these days.
McKinzieConsulting 1 month ago
"Why so serious?!"
aresgardner 1 month ago
The antithesis to the Law of Attraction? Reactive commentary or eye-opening observation?
aresgardner 1 month ago
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Actually I believe it is not so much the 'Law of Attraction that is condemned here, but the way 'The Secret' conveyed it. There is a huge difference between 'The Secret' and the original conveyors of the law, Esther and Jerry Hicks. The glass can be indeed half full or half empty, without even mentioning that the one would be positive or respectively negative. Long before corporatism a wise man said 'The World Is As You See It', triggering emotions in either direction.
youralmostthere 1 month ago
@youralmostthere
Personally I came to the conclusion that life per se is a win/win situation. You create positive circumstances for your self - you are a happy camper. You create negative circumstances in your life, you experience spiritual growth. Flat Earth - Round Earth - Quantum Earth is the timeline, not depending on what people think about it and that's missing in this feature. But hey, 'It's Just A Ride!!!'
youralmostthere 1 month ago
but focusing on what you want freekin works.
ihventura 1 month ago
I think she's mistaken about what us nut jobs think is going on with quantum theory and "the secret" lol, but I see us on the quantum level as really one thing, playing at separateness, getting lost in the world, but really, just energy. One. Tsunamis as a point of "see look at your theory now" doesn't really matter. the one energy set thins thing in motion, it's responsible for everything- you, me, tsunamis. Death is terrible only because we're lost in this world and have attachments.
ihventura 1 month ago
@ihventura Both view points are missing the real McCoy here. It's called INTUITION. The connection with Your inner voice. So many people were staring at the Tsunami in disbelief, glued to the ground. That has to do with 'reality tv', were things like that happen without getting wet feet. Real life is different. No commercial break before you drown. Naivety can not be blamed on Universal forces. People are brainwashed to discard their instincts. Because 'God's in Control', right?
youralmostthere 1 month ago
The enemy is two-fold ....
1. Those who see criticism/challenge of ideas/identification of risk as negativity/a bad thing.
2. Those who ignore the reality of a bad situation because they choose not to because it doesn't fit their paradigm.
Blind Optimism is more likely to damage than Blind pessimism in my view....
Spot on Barbara.
zebrarama 1 month ago 2
Thank you Barbara for pointing out the stupidity some people have. They just don't understand reality. There's a difference between being good and ignoring reality.
Charlie12241 1 month ago
Barbara is wrong here. The basis of positive thinking is accepting misfortune, seeing it as a challenge, and working to correct the problem. The situations that she describes, like a tsunami or mass layoff, are completely out of an individuals control. It doesn't matter whether they think positively or not, the disrupting event has occurred, and they must mobilize themselves to deal with it. Fear, negativity, and hopelessness immobilize. Hope, belief in yourself, and positivity mobilizes us.
infoeffect 1 month ago
I really agree, as distressing as it is, nobody wants to listen to the person who thinks realistically (it's the same thing as pessimism to some people), they all want smiling yes-men. One of my college communication courses had list of "Types of unhelpful people in meetings"; one of them was called "Dr. No" and was described as the type of person who would always 'bring down the group' by looking at the possible downsides or risks of the endeavor.
NocturnalCrab2 1 month ago 37
@NocturnalCrab2 Never let an optimist fix your roof or your brakes. Get the dourest, most miserable, dude you can find.
Pangolinx1 2 weeks ago
@NocturnalCrab2 That takes me back. I minored in comm and took a class full of that kind of working professionals' pseudo-psychological and pseudo-philosophical crap. The professor told lots of smutty sitcom-like jokes, and the class was an easy 'A,' and so most of the other students (sadly) ate up everything taught in that class, while I sat by the ~150 students laughing at her jokes hating almost every minute of it. Nothing soured my impressions of comm more than that class.
arcas17 2 weeks ago
@NocturnalCrab2 This is exactly what the video is trying to point out. Because of lack of realists in society, we manage to make poor decisions and do not weigh up the negatives of the actions we take. It's all well and good surrounding yourself with positive minded people, but there is a difference between positive in going forward, and absent-minded positiveness
dannygoodwinphoto 2 weeks ago 3
i think she didnt get it...its about thinking positively and drag new opportunities to you...so you can have what you want if you take that chance and beat the crap out of it. its not like you need money so they fall from heaven on you....
ImSelfSchooling 1 month ago
What really frightens me about some of the posts defending the positive thought school is the rage bubbling just below the surface. Seems suppression of true feelings and reality inevitably leads to an explosion - or meltdown. Hence the phrase, "sorry to burst your bubble."
MrNorrisjosh 1 month ago 3
I stopped the video at minute 4, I couldn't stand hearing such ignorance. Positive Thinking has nothing to do with the Economic Meltdown.
incuboaquien02 1 month ago
Love he message ydraw also creates video scribing videos
Ydraw2011 1 month ago
Being positive does not equal to being ignorant. But the video is great nonetheless showing how the term "positive" has been abused by ppl.
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Smiling... :)
optikasia 1 month ago
Typical Soviet bashing from this soft left social democrat.
jumpnjza2 1 month ago
@jumpnjza2 typical comment from a troll. pft. morons.
DragonitePaladin 1 month ago
What is delusion -- What is hope?
honestlylolly59 1 month ago
This is very deep.
I'm amazed such a positive human emotion as hope can be used to give a message that contrasts so severely with the original thought.
I think this video is more a message of how those in positions of power can abuse human altruism and hope much more than the idea these feelings are destructive.
OnlyTheBestDnB 1 month ago
As theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli would say "It's not even wrong". The very optimism that she rails against is what is required to believe in the ability to change the world. Losing ones middle management job is exactly the kind of think that could cause one to realize that you were living in a world of mediocrity that one had learned to accept as "normal". At it's core optimism is unreasonable expectations and sure those can be a twin edged sword but on balance it is a force for good.
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ghostbustersbl 1 month ago
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Folks, thumbs up!
seamlessgutterss 1 month ago
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I think she looks too much into the PR and too little into the depth of the debates on this. Shouting about quantum physics as an excuse and mixing magnetic heads in all of this is irrelevant. They are all close to conspiracy theories.
If I'd do the same to her speech, it'd be: "Barbara Ehrenreich's theory is only her excuse to complain more!" - I'm just being a realist, not delusional. ;D
Very little solution, very much complaining.
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MrOtterWulf 1 month ago
You gotta keep it real! But sometimes keeping at real can go wrong
jugaros 1 month ago
Used the wrong your at 4:58 :(
Meerar7 1 month ago
@Meerar7 Good eye! That's on there quick.
shthd843 1 month ago
its cruel to try and cheer people up and make them happy? .. and she says that her background isn't science, yet she feels like she has the authority to call quantum physics pseudoscience? Based on her tone of voice she seems bitter and jaded with the idea of positive thinking.
antitype27 1 month ago
@antitype27 No, she calls people who misuse quantum physics (like the so-called positive thinker advocates) pseudoscientists. Very different.
zemyla 1 month ago
She is so wrong on so many levels.... ignorant to say the least.
07illumini 1 month ago
She is missing so many of the main core points of optimism and reality that it isn't worth disagreeing with.
SlipAllCityToy 1 month ago
ideology of positive thinking
akzirhp 1 month ago
I'm not to sure I agree with everything she said. I really liked the drawing though =P
Eaturveggies21 1 month ago
audio! not good..
TheBlackxism 1 month ago
Very good :) Thank you Samir
maldarkangel 1 month ago
I understand her perspective of optimism can be used as a form of social control, yet I think optimism can be powerful when it is grounded, when you can see things for what it is, and then choose to see things in a positive light. Just my two cents.
ManUtdRules1 1 month ago 30
@ManUtdRules1 Well, yeah, but that's exactly what she's saying when she makes the "radical" suggestion of realism. You just defined it, sort of. She says that she doesn't advocate gloom, and depression, and pessimism, but encourages the behavior of looking at one's problems clearly (aka NOT delusional-ly), and then finding real-world solutions to those problems. REALISM.
TheDownwalls 1 month ago 2
I love your videos, but I've noticed that you sometimes make small mistakes (a couple times you said your instead of you're). No big deal, it's just a pet peeve and makes them look a little less tidy than they could.
SeizureBobcat 1 month ago
I see your epidermis. That's not a really good joke, but I'm kinda bored.
BcauseIFeelLykIt 2 months ago
I knew there was a reason I hated those cheesy motivational posters.
Pazuzu4All 2 months ago 5
No, optimism simply creates a confirmation bias of positivity within a person, and people who believe that it's not the end of the world are more likely to act to help themselves out of it. It's the Skinner's Box experiment. A person who feels like they have control will look for options and channels through which to act. A person who is pessimistic and feels they have no control or alternative to depression and/or pain will not look for ways to help theirself.
bookwyrm18 2 months ago
@bookwyrm18 Well said! Confirmation bias is ongoing in everyone, no matter what their beliefs. Believe that the world is crushing you, and you naturally overlook possibilities to get to a better spot in the world.
shthd843 1 month ago
So what You are Saying is To stay Realistic, and Support yourself.
datkid56 2 months ago
She also assumed that the market correcting itself is somehow a form of positive thinking. Markets correcting themselves is not a positive thinking thing but an observable and quantifiable phenomena (notice I did not state that is was a fact). I agree with her to an extent about positive thinking. I like to think of myself as an optimist-realist. I always look for ways to improve and seek beauty, but I do not turn a blind eye to danger or reality.
brianfmiddleton 2 months ago
She fails to mention the governmental forcing of positive thinking by making banks to make bad loans in relation to the 2007 Melt Down. The cause is rooted in the government. Still, I like the overall message.
brianfmiddleton 2 months ago
The secret can work for some but it's not for everyone, It certainly doesn't reveal the whole secret like it makes out and just skims the surface of what was hidden from us. An you can't always bame people for not creating a better reality for themselves as sometimes they don't even know what reality they should create or how. So they are stuck in the vibration of someone elses version or plan for reality that only a clear bright dream for the future will help.
Pixie11ears 2 months ago
Just wanted to point out your artistic hand talent!
dumpstersforsale 2 months ago
What's up with the polarization in the comments? People seem to be aggressively defending positive thinking while being dismissive of Ehrenreich, and vice versa. Also, there's little point in arguing her bias here, mainly because everyone in here has it.
As always I believe that what matters the most is to recognize that there are two sides to every coin and a balance between positive thinking and realism is very important. Sometimes you just have to acknowledge that things are in the shit.
Arraespower 2 months ago
It's a pity that she has misrepresented positive psychology and probably a number of other facts - to drive her argument. Maybe on purpose, maybe she just doesn't have a clue.... But hey, free speech and all that.... she's allowed to present have a poorly researched argument that makes her look like someone with a chip on her shoulder...
recalcitrantprincess 2 months ago
heres a easy fix without bitching about terminology. CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER.
wtfisthatsmell 2 months ago
This video is a load of progressive "we are smarter than you" crap! This entire thing is simply an anti-capitalist, anti-US (note the anti-Bush, Iraq war, etc.) Not to mention the undertone that Americans are "Dilusional" and being programmed by the corporations to be that way.
Papermaker73 2 months ago
I saw this propoganda being played on a ferry trip in Argentina. I should point out that the Ultra progressives in power there find this kind of image ideal for programming Argentinians to want to be more like the USSR than the US. The woman totally misses the idea of being optimistic.
Papermaker73 2 months ago
Positive thinking had nothing to do with the financial collapse of the financial markets. The truth of the power of thought is that if you take a negative approach to life, you will always find your road more difficult. With the right attitude, much can be accomplished. Thinking positive about my capability is what brought me from homeless to carrying three college degrees and working all over the world.
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Positive thinking had nothing to do with the financial collapse of the financial markets. The truth of the power of thought is that if you take a negative approach to life, you will always find your road more difficult. With the right attitude, much can be accomplished. Thinking positive about my capability is what brought me from homeless to carrying three college degrees and working all over the world.
Papermaker73 2 months ago
I don't really know what she said but the drawings are amazing! :P
inflatabledart8oard 2 months ago
QUANTUM PHYSICS FTW!!!!!
BooglyBoot 2 months ago
They said "your fired." GAME OVER
DadaistTheater 2 months ago
305 peoples already know the truth behind 'the secret'
phonyaashim 2 months ago
Oh god, I just got to the Iraq part and this video went from 'meh' to 'load of BS'
B0WtiE 2 months ago
I don't think people in Wall st. were fired because of 'negative thinking'. If I were someone who benefits greatly from financial collapse, I would fire that guy pronto.
This video is dissapoint.
B0WtiE 2 months ago
wow, you guys are officially my new idols!
arzgania 2 months ago
* value
maddogfarg0 2 months ago
The problem with 'thinking' and 'talking' in general is that many do not EXECUTE on what is thought or talked about. Knowing the right thing to do or saying what the best solution to a problem is holds little calue next to DOING what needs to be done to fix what is wrong.
maddogfarg0 2 months ago
She has a point. But Quantum physics is just what western scientists call meta-physics. And, really, meta-physics is just another name for 'magic.' Again, I see her point and I agree. BUT, concentrated thought can move mountains. Real talk. Doesn't have to positive or negative... but it's a lost skill.
slipperypete619 2 months ago
RSA - this is a job well done!!!! Keep it going and let the world know- that we have a great chance of restoring our sanity as a species! Cheers!!!! Love and Light!
adj168 2 months ago
I think she says "powerlessness" not "perilousness"
carbo19 2 months ago
I want subtitles in every RSA's video!!! :D
flyalone27 2 months ago
Nobody ever said one can just THINK oneself to success; no one. One needs to take action, This "acclaimed" person seems to be a professional feminist and depressed dilletante. Apparently depressed and depressing. Barely connected to real world. Reminds me of Chomsky, professional linguist and Collectivist propagandist. I know a few nutty wacko feminist who worship this negativist psudeo-intellectual.
forwardmover 2 months ago
@forwardmover My friend, your spelling is atrocious!
jam11049 2 months ago
@jam11049 Spelling? OMG! Typical liberal response. I would rather have poor spelling than be illogical or lacking in common sense. I am informed in this area, and am helping you to better understand left wing / feminist propaganda techniques.
forwardmover 2 months ago
@forwardmover My friend, it is illogical to spell things wrong! Indeed, it only takes some common sense!
jam11049 2 months ago
I gave this a thumbs up because I love RSA Animate. But this talk wasn't as well thought out and articulate as their others.
kozychik 2 months ago
I was just getting fed up with this Positive Deluding our culture seems to be going through over here. I found this and had an ACTUAL positive experience, heh. I'm sharing this. Thank you very much!
BattleMage52 2 months ago 6
clever use of the image of Darth Vader
Minakou1 2 months ago 13