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more about #thesecret more comments → sweetbeans: I had an amazing conversation with a friend about this book after we watched Ehrenreich on The Daily Show the other day. It was like a veil being pull... more » LouisCeline: I remember back in the mid 1980's when you started to see a slew of management books pushing ideas like, convincing workers that layoffs and having no... more » Red-headed bookworm: Wow, I want to read this book. I think the whole "positive-thinking" and "mind over matter" ideas can do a real disservice to people suffering from de... more » Tart of Darkness: I wonder if she mentions Louise LaHayes masterpieces of victim-blaming in her book? In LaHaye world one LITERALLY causes one's own illness due to unm... more » Sunshineyness: This also reminds me of a training thing I had to go to at work a bit back. First the people there treated the group of people who at the youngest was... more » Sunshineyness: "Ehrenreich also writes persuasively that the popularity of positive thinking in corporate America — she cites the rise of "self-described managemen... more » Celestaida: "While looking on the bright side of a layoff may make sense on a personal level, it also discourages any sort of collective action." Collective act... more » BuffyPhD: I think there is a problem equating the sincere effort to joyfully embrace life with "self-absorption." Jill Bolte Taylor's book, "My stroke of insigh... more » pdschaffner: We live in a society where children are constantly told "Do your best and you'll make it." B.S. It needs to be demoted to "Do your best and you'll kn... more » Cookie Guggleman: Americans suffer from the delusion that they're going to be rich someday and never die -- and positive thinking will make it so. #brightsided more » Anita Ham Sandwich: I've wholeheartedly fallen in love with Barbara Ehrenreich's ideas. She was on the Daily Show last week and I loved it. If someone's going through... more » pourtant: I don't know if I can bear to read her take on cancer. My mom was/is in that exact situation. People who seem to be otherwise sane individuals, have... more » martha.stuckey: I read an article similar to this recently called "Cancer Butch" by Dr. Sarah Lochlann Jain. Although there's lots more to it than the theme of positi... more » veronykah: I've been thinking about this lately. I work as a bartender, some days you make good money, others not so good. I have a boss that, despite it being a... more » Baroness: Ehrenreich is a fiercely smart and passionate writer, and I am damned glad she's around to tell her tales. #brightsided more » -
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Bright-Sided: The Negative Consequences Of Positive Thinking
According to Barbara Ehrenreich's Bright-Sided, the much-vaunted "power of positive thinking" won't cure cancer, make us rich, or necessarily even keep us happy. In fact, it may be harming us.
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#secretsandlies
Teen Version Of The Secret To Fulfill Ill-Advised Adolescent Fantasies
A teen version of The Secret is coming out in the fall, which will help teens to "live their dreams." If this had been out ten years ago, John Cusack and I would have several kids by now. [AP] -
#playingdoctor
Is Oprah Selling Snake Oil?
Oprah responded yesterday to Newsweek's recent claim that her health advice is irresponsible, but the criticisms of her embrace of homeopathy and other non-scientifically proven cures keep coming.
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