7 Sep
Madoff and Miracles: How I Lost My Life’s Savings and a Poem Saved My Life
Thank you. Poetry is the sacred. Poetry is the sacred made secular. I think it is of the greatest importances for people to go back to poetry. It is fundamentally, us reimagined into our beautiful. fascinating. ordinary. selves, or lack thereof. great post!
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7 Sep
Why Positive Thinking Just Doesn’t Work
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Hey Russell,
Insightful Article. You are totally right…the problem with many people who use self development books is that they keep reading and reading and never really applying what they’ve read. I know one writer calls it spiritual bloating or indigestion. Agreed.
However, you did not address the rebuttals that people had made. You simply twisted them to re-align with the points you had made previously. Which is a rhetorical cheap shot for someone that is trying to help people.
The self-help industry has short-comings. Including, emphasizing the reward over practice, i.e, “Learn how to make millions of dollars in 30 days”, but not stating the work and learning curve that comes into that wealth or how wealth does not increase happiness”
Everything you said about positive thinking and practice is dead on. What you didn’t say is the possible side effects or trials that personal growth entail.
I think that’s the difference between an amateur and a professional: Amateurs give you a one-sided coin and professionals give you the whole thing… this isn’t to say that the mental health industry doesn’t focus on the woes of humanity, its to say that PD lacks balance/harmony and ethical clarity.
While the comments may have been a bit abrasive in the past, in truth what many of these comments are saying is personal development/spiritual growth is a journey…some journeys are shorter than others but all are a challenge.
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