2007-02-28 08:39:38 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Not just specific to positive thinking but two great books in general:
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Illusions (Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Both same Author, Read Jonathan first...
Fictional based philosophy.
Things I took from each book:
Jonathan....
Life is much more than just the day to day struggle and you have to learn to look past it and focus on what is truly important.
Illusions...
We have responsibility for what happens in our lives and draw to ourselves the good, the bad and the other, regardless if those things are directly a result of our own actions or not and rather than attempting to place blame all the time, we need to attempt to learn from all of them.
You may take something different from each one or nothing at all, these are just my interpretations.
Enjoy
2007-02-28 09:04:51 · answer #1 · answered by John 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Authentic Happiness by Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D.
Not specifically a book on positive thinking, athough that is covered in the book, but a far more useful all encompassing well researched treatise on using the latest discoveries of a new field of psychological research to realise lasting fulfillment.
The author, is the Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania in the USA, the director of the Positive Psychology Network, and former president of the American Psychological Association. He is also an honorary professor at the university of Cardiff.
And, in typical scientific fashion, unlike authors that usually fall in the "self-help" category, he provides a series of well researched and step-by-step, clear, concise, and repeatable concepts, quizzes, and exercises to discover where you are now and take you to a better, more authentically happy life.
In his own words, here's a quote from the preface:
"So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few and only ephemeral pleasures, with minimal gratifications, and without meaning, there is a road out. This road takes you through the countryside of pleasure and gratification, up into the high country of strength and virtue, and finally to the peaks of lasting fulfillment: meaning and purpose."
2007-02-28 23:03:19 · answer #2 · answered by gsp100677 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Road Less Traveled & The Road Less Traveled and Beyond - M. Scott Peck
The Serenity Principle - Joseph V. Bailey
Don't Sweat theSmall Stuff - Richard Carlson
Slowing Down to the Speed of Life - Joseph V. Bailey & Richard Carlson
The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
The Missing Link & The Enlightened Gardener - Sydney Banks
2007-02-28 11:09:21 · answer #3 · answered by Ray 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Survival in Auschwitz.
It's not in the self-help category but it's about survival at its most basic. What separates the drowned from the saved--those that give up versus those than persist.
It's not inspiring in a Chicken Soup for the Soul kind of way, though.
It does make a lot of typical problems pale in comparison, however, and demonstrates that optimism, or some sort of essential human willingness to keep on going is very difficult to extinguish.
That said, the author eventually ended up committing suicide.
But he survived Auschwitz.
(Ultimately, I think that positive thinking happens because of earlier success, diet, support networks--all sorts of things that books can't really help trigger, necessarily)
2007-02-28 08:45:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
2007-03-01 06:55:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Power of Positive Thinking
by Norman Vincent Peale
It worked for me.
2007-02-28 08:50:30 · answer #6 · answered by gene_frequency 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Converstions with God by Neale Donald Walsch. It's a trilogy, so start off with Book 1, but take it really easy, and you must read it with an open mind. Don't close your mind to any of it if you dont believe he actually talked to God, because the message in the books transcends this.
The books aren't religious at all, but they do look at how your beliefs influence your everyday life. These books changed my life- give them a go!
2007-02-28 23:31:21 · answer #7 · answered by @>-- Dee --<@ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ther are three, actually.
"The Magic of Thinking Big" by David Schultx
"How to Win Friends and Influence People" By Dale Carnegie
"THe Go Getter". I forgot who wrote it.
2007-02-28 08:47:31 · answer #8 · answered by hunterentertainment 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-18 11:28:29 · answer #9 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Holy Bible and especially the chapters of the Proverbs and Ecclesiastics
2007-02-28 08:57:23 · answer #10 · answered by cabridog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋