After hearing of the movie/book "The Secret" I have a few questions. Does in fact positive thinking bring success & wealth, etc...? I wonder to some degree. I feel positive thinking can help you get further tords such a goal. I also ponder if you can bring positive things by being positive. Like somehow you attract more options to you? What is your opinion?
2007-03-26 17:42:21 · 12 answers · asked by ♕Soulful Dreamer♕ 5 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Maybe I shouldn't said luck. I mean like better opportunities perhaps!:)
2007-03-26 17:51:27 · update #1
I do not believe ALL that the Secret teaches, I think it is one sided.
Having said that. Their is years of research that proves that positive thinking is a key to most people's success. For one thing if you think positive, you often won't be expressing negative views of yourself and the world, so people tend to want to be around you.
Negative people will not attract most of the time positive people. BUt being positive alone isn't going to bring everything to you. Many good hard working, positive people do not get ahead in life. The secret would have you believe that they only failed to get ahead, becaue they were not POSITIVE ENOUGH.
You can't be positive and not be educated, then expect to get ahead. You can't do many things just becaue you are positive. But being positive can aid you in your goals, in working to achieve goals, instead of giving up when things get hard.
Achievement and success usually take more then Positive thinking. It takes a lot of harm work. It takes preparing through various training, to have the skills you'll need to be what you want to be. Positive thinking won't make you a doctor, if you do not work hard to earn good grades, then work hard in college and med school. You won't be rich if you think Positively, but then never learn to budget, go into debt all the time. Make sense?
Positive thinking is definately a plus in life, but it isn't the all and an all those who promote the Secret would have so many believe; but their positive thinking AND promotion is sure making them rich because everyone is buying their books, the movie and going to lectures now.
2007-03-26 17:57:14 · answer #1 · answered by Mountain Bear 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I personally believe that in fact, thinking positive will bring better results in everything in your life. Thinking positive and providing yourself with the notions of success will be the main motivation for you to work harder to achieve that success you've been thinking about.
I'm a university student. So here's an example of my experience from everyday school work and the stress related to it. If you want to get that A on your physiology final at the end of the semester and if you keep in mind the self-reward from achieving that goal, you automatically will be studying harder and the stress you get from all the work will be much less.
Keeping positive mind on things is like setting a goal that you can see in front of you. You see it so you will work for it.
Keep thinking positive. Be friendly and smile for your friends and family. Maybe you can ask me "why?" now but it always pay off. :)
2007-03-26 17:56:50 · answer #2 · answered by John L 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Like if you're on your way to achieve something and at a point you fail in a small thing, you'll feel miserable about it. Think negative and you'll suddenly find out that you are going nowhere, there's no point in this and bad things will
happen which causes you to be doubtful of your goal. "I can't do it. Its too hard", will keep repeating in your mind and this forces you to abandon your dream.
If someone thinks positive, he'll feel that this is just one of those stone on your journey, over which you may trip and fall. Of course there are many more ahead but one can learn to step over them and go on. "Learn from your mistakes and you won't repeat them", echoes in your mind. A sudden urge to face the challenges and continue with the battle and though, slowed down and tired, you'll finally reach your goal.
There's also a saying that laughter is the best medicine. Feeling gloomy, one might succumb to his disease even in the best medical care. Even if one survives, he or she will be scarred for a long time. Laughing helps us forget our problems and lets us enter a mood which can lift us up from our misery. So can smiling and thinking positive.
2007-03-26 18:19:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Positive thinking makes you feel good about yourself, about others, about situations, about your lot in life. Your positive attitude would also engender people to like you and respond to you favorably. By their positive response to you, situations are very much likely to be positive. And yes, windows of opportunities may be opened to you by virtue of positive remarks and referrals from people who like you for being a positive person. But this does automatically make everything rosy in life. It doesn't even bring luck. Life is not based on luck. If you're a true believer with a strong foundations of Christian faith, you would know that life is predestined. All things are planned and purposed to happen. Now, that is what you can real optimism - knowing and believing that a reason lies behind things that happen in your life. It's not just mere luck.
2007-03-26 17:55:55 · answer #4 · answered by screech 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have always beenn a firm believer in living life with a PMA- positive mental attitude. I don't think that you can cure yourself of cancer, just by thinking you are cured. But I worked in a radiation therapy unit for 5 yrs, and I can for sure tell you that the patients that were happy and had a good attitude about life always were the ones that did better with their treatments.
2007-03-26 17:57:39 · answer #5 · answered by suequek 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2017-02-19 19:50:40 · answer #6 · answered by kenneth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello,
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2014-07-28 14:24:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont think it will bring you "luck". but i do think that thinking and acting positive can benefit you because it can boost your selfconfidence which in turn could change others opinion of you which could lead to a world of change. thats just my opinion though
2007-03-26 17:48:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are numerous people who would laugh at the prospect of altering their destinies. This is due to the fact that it believes that nobody gets more that what is put in his fate.
2016-05-17 18:45:54 · answer #9 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont know about all that, but I believe if u set your mind to somthing and act on it then anything is possible.
2007-03-26 17:50:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋