Full name: Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America

Author: Barbara Ehrenreich Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: Amazon LibraryThing Goodreads ISBNs: 9780312658854 0312658850

Barbara Ehrenreich's New York Times bestselling Bright-Sided is a sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realismAmericans are a "positive" people -- cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: This is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive is the key to getting success and prosperity. Or so we are told.In this utterly original debunking, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the false promises of positive thinking and shows its reach into every corner of American life, from Evangelical megachurches to the medical establishment, and, worst of all, to the business community, where the refusal to consider negative outcomes--like mortgage defaults--contributed directly... Similar books: Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell Rock Breaks Scissors by William Poundstone Savage Spawn by Jonathan Kellerman David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt Think! by Michael R. LeGault In Pursuit of Silence by George Prochnik Snoop by Sam Gosling The Social Animal by David Brooks What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz You Are Now Less Dumb by David McRaney