Review: Positive Thinking Really Wins!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 27, 2013
Thanks to my mother exposing me to self improvement programs like Earl Nightingale's ″The Strangest Secret″ as a child, I've been a huge fan of personal development and positive thought. I have many books on the topic, and I'm always happy to find something new. This book does an excellent job of breaking down concepts and then helping your understand how to use those to improve your own patterns of thought.First, Ms. Wilson discusses the nature of thought as well as common thought patterns people use. After this, she defines negative thinking and illustrates the dangers thereof. Like for example, did you know that in addition to a placebo effect (where expecting a positive result can lead to improvements), there is also a ″nocebo″ effect, where ones own negative thoughts cause one to have a harmful outcome in the same situation where someone with a positive attitude might have more positive results?Once you have a clear grounding in the patterns and dangers of negative thinking, she then shows you how to filp you negative thoughts into positive ones. All in all, there was a lot of great information in this book. Not only did I get a good refresher in aspects of positive psychology of which I'd also been aware, I also picked up some great new tips and techniques for thinking more positively. Great book!