"Positive thinking" prevents you focus on success

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All around are constantly told that positive thoughts lead to positive in life. Self-help gurus tell us to visualize success, and psychologists have tirelessly repeated the "power of positive thinking." However, scientists have found that pleasant fantasy lead to negative consequences.



Adam Alter wrote a great article about what happens when you look only at the bright side of life, and think only about the good: it can push you to crash and stop to make a backup plan just in case, if everything goes not as easy as you thought . Here is what he wrote:

"According to a major study, positive thinking can reduce your chances of success. In one experiment, social psychologists Gabriele Oettingen and Doris Meyer interviewed of 83 German students to find out how much light they look to the future - when finished university, find a job and start working.

Two years later, the psychologists again interviewed all of these students, who by that time had finished university. Those who thought only about good and pictured rosy picture of the future, have received less prestigious and high-paying jobs.

The same applies to other areas of life: for example, students often dream of a beautiful romantic relationship, they were lonely and afraid to communicate with the opposite sex. The students, who had to undergo surgery and who were hoping for a speedy recovery, and especially thinking only about the good, recovering slowly.



Heather Barry Capps, a professor of management at the London School of Economics published a similar study. I asked Capps why positive thinking hinders progress, and she replied that positive thoughts about something give the brain a signal that the goal has been and is so close, and once the goal is near, it too no longer need to try ».

via factroom.ru