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Uploaded by on Oct 15, 2009

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http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2009/10/14/segments/142536
Barbara Ehrenreich talks about why she thinks Americas love affair with positive thinking has a negative side. Her new book Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America traces the origins of our sunny outlook and looks at how relentless positive thinking has led to an era of what Ehrenreich calls irrational optimism.

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  • @o0xst "it is what it is", "everything happens for a reason", "reinvent yourself", overused and distractions from the truth.

  • this is great that someone finally stands up and points out the queer side of "positive thinking"!

    it really takes a fighter to be different to the main stream. taking from a view of actually experienced the cancer herself, babara's comments are sincere enough.

  • why must you people always say "wow...just wow!" oh I know its cuz "it is what it is" wasn't applicable. lawl.

  • wow......just wow

    surviving chemotherapy=positive

    surviving cancer=positive

    being cancer free=positive

    being an author=positive

    book tour=positive

    awareness and free support=positive

    people wanting to know what you have to say=positive

    being ALIVE=POSITIVE

    Enjoy YOUR life instead of picking apart the lives and thoughts of others. Thanks

  • Positive thinking is the same as wishful thinking.

  • Her surviving cancer wasn't all that positive.

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