The constant admonitions to “think positive!” aren’t as useful in achieving your goals as we once thought. Of course, fatalism isn’t much help, either. But tempering one’s optimism with a real-world dose of pessimism may do the trick.
The Science of Us from New York magazine presents the psychological research showing that positive thinking can get in the way of getting where we want to be. -via Digg
Kinda makes me wonder how many optimists get trapped in burning buildings because they refuse to consider fire escape routes before the fire starts.
I doubt it.