The more I look the more I see in things their opposite. Assets are liabilities and vice versa. Pick just about anything and both arguments can be made for the good and the bad of it. So which to pick?Nobody wants problems. I do not want to wish problems on anyone. But problems happen; nobody’s… Continue reading In Every Problem There Is an Opportunity
Author: Dan Pouliot
A New Hampshire native, Dan received his BFA in Oil Painting from UNH; his digital works are in multiple permanent collections. Dan’s been a positive psychology student/practitioner, a blogger, an amateur Remote Viewer, and now a novelist. His dual passions for anomalous cognition and positive thinking set the stage for his debut young adult novel, Super Human, published by PortalStar Publishing. Dan describes Super Human as The Karate Kid meets Escape to Witch Mountain.
The Sins of Positive Thinkers
I’m not alone as someone who— in search of spiritual growth— walked away from organized religion. The sermons repeated in my church seemed tired and not terribly relevant to me (though, in fairness, I stopped going at age 16). Words like lord and salvation seemed to be used as givens, above inquiry. I got in to positive… Continue reading The Sins of Positive Thinkers
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Positive Affirmations, Power or Peril?
Psychologist Joanne Wood’s study Positive Self-Statements: Power for Some, Peril for Others got a brief write up over at intentblog.I first heard of this study via Oliver Burkman’s article, The Power of Negative Thinking. Burkeman casts doubt on the merits of positive affirmations by quoting the study, “such statements make people with low self-esteem feel worse”. Maggie… Continue reading Positive Affirmations, Power or Peril?
Why Am I Bothered By Him?
Once, a co-worker told a customer our ISP was down “for more than 24 hours” (it wasn’t). Untrue statements are a pet peeve of mine. So I vented with another co-worker, saying I knew “for a fact” that our ISP was down for less than 8 hours, and a conversation ensued as to whether his… Continue reading Why Am I Bothered By Him?