Is positive thinking wishful thinking? Could you exemplify positive thinking and wishful thinking?
July 23, 2010 by admin
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Give me examples.
How do you know something good will happen?
POSITIVE THINKING: a distinctly American movement originating in the nineteenth century which believed in PROGRESS and stressed the role of thought in the creation of material well-being.
http://people.ucalgary.ca/~nurelweb/books/concise/WORDS-P.html
wishful thinking
Identification of one’s wishes or desires with reality.
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/wishful%20thinking
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wishful_thinking
Wishful thinking is the formation of beliefs and making decisions according to what might be pleasing to imagine instead of by appealing to evidence, rationality or reality.
Studies have consistently shown that holding all else equal, subjects will predict positive outcomes to be more likely than negative outcomes.
Prominent examples of wishful thinking include:
Economist Irving Fisher said that "stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau" a few weeks before the Stock Market Crash of 1929, which was followed by the Great Depression.
President John F. Kennedy believed that, if overpowered by Cuban forces, the CIA-backed rebels could "escape destruction by melting into the countryside" in the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
http://www.answers.com/topic/wishful-thinking
Real positive thinking implies action; it’s proactive. Wishful thinking is reactive. Positive thinking is figuring out a way to prosper in bad times – and believing you can. Wishful thinking is waiting for the good times to arrive and save you from your circumstances.
http://www.harmonion.com/Article2/E-Wishful_Thinking_vs_Positive_Thinking_Hexagram.html
positive thinking is NOT wishful thinking, one can think positively but not wishfully. You can think positively such as "I am going to have a great lunch" or you can think wishfully such as "I hope to have a great lunch" These sentences may not seem that different but they are. Positive thinkers know that something good will happen rather than just hoping for it.
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I’d say wishful thinking would be like imagining you’ll become the next CEO of Microsoft, or that you’ll get married to Megan Fox. In other words, it’s stuff you think about that’s pretty much out of reach and borderline impossible, but which you still enjoy entertaining the remote possibility of.
An example of positive thinking would be expecting to get that promotion you applied for, or expecting to get a date with that pretty counter girl at Starbucks.
Wishful thinking is almost like daydreaming, in my opinion, whereas positive thinking is the process of visualizing something attainable, about which you subsequently adopt an attitude of confidence in your own ability to achieve (or, if you’re a person of faith, you adopt an attitude of confidence in God’s ability to help you achieve), and then you act with determination and perseverance based on that reasonable expectation.
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Everything has an up side and a down side. A positive thinker focuses on the up side and a negative thinker focuses on the down side. Both are viewing a segment of reality, but not the whole picture. You must look at the up side and the down side to know the risk and plan for problems, but then you forge forward in a positive, can do posture.
Wishful thinking is dreaming, ie: I wish I had a million dollars, I wish I looked like Sophia Loren or something along those lines.
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I hate the terms ‘optimist’ and ‘pessimist’. I want the clearest definition of reality there is…without any bias. I’d say that positive thinking is looking for good in the world while blocking out the bad…and wishful thinking is pretty self-explanatory…like hope.
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POSITIVE THINKING: a distinctly American movement originating in the nineteenth century which believed in PROGRESS and stressed the role of thought in the creation of material well-being.
http://people.ucalgary.ca/~nurelweb/books/concise/WORDS-P.html
wishful thinking
Identification of one’s wishes or desires with reality.
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/wishful%20thinking
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wishful_thinking
Wishful thinking is the formation of beliefs and making decisions according to what might be pleasing to imagine instead of by appealing to evidence, rationality or reality.
Studies have consistently shown that holding all else equal, subjects will predict positive outcomes to be more likely than negative outcomes.
Prominent examples of wishful thinking include:
Economist Irving Fisher said that "stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau" a few weeks before the Stock Market Crash of 1929, which was followed by the Great Depression.
President John F. Kennedy believed that, if overpowered by Cuban forces, the CIA-backed rebels could "escape destruction by melting into the countryside" in the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
http://www.answers.com/topic/wishful-thinking
Real positive thinking implies action; it’s proactive. Wishful thinking is reactive. Positive thinking is figuring out a way to prosper in bad times – and believing you can. Wishful thinking is waiting for the good times to arrive and save you from your circumstances.
http://www.harmonion.com/Article2/E-Wishful_Thinking_vs_Positive_Thinking_Hexagram.html
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