RSA ANIMATE: Smile or Die

In my experience, real optimism comes from a quiet home environment, an independent income, and lots of therapy. I was a pessimist when I lived as a man, until I joined several support groups, was diagnosed as autistic and transgender, came out of the closet, and went on disability, then inherited my late mother's property. Now, I'm an optimist!

This is one of the reasons I never worked a corporate job! I have Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and was a pessimist when I was a young man.

I doubt there is more of a person who has suffered the delusion of other people's insistence on "positive thinking" than I. I fought them but couldn't persuade them. Maybe one day, some of these people who are spreading that misery will stumble upon this video.

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Thinking positively includes thinking realistically, she is talking about being delusional, which hurts you, which is not positive

I love this but it is not animation

Thinking about stockton rush, he sacked his safety chief for calling out the flaws

She's very right. You'll deal with this bullshit every day in the corporate world.

When I was told about the law of attraction as a child, I broke down crying because I internalized that it was my fault for ruining my own life with my own bad thoughts and feelings, and if that's how life works than I'd be in trouble.

Good times. 🎉

The more I learn about USA the more I believe it's a dystopia.

I wonder if toxic positivity had anything to do with what's happening in Silicon Valley.

Quantum science is an excuse to mock all of science! Nothing is real, nothing is true? WTF?
That is not what quantum science is or does. Very simply, it is a system to deal with studies on sub atomic levels where regular systems do not deal with probability of unseen atomic systems. Quantum science solves real world probelms, so it is more than theoretical. The idea of "making up a special system to solve special problems" is "thinking outside the box" in action. it is creative, but not arbitrary, as this cartoon seems to suggest.

Nah, the problem is that this lady just has a low vibration. She's not enlightened enough for magical thinking.

This is probably the most relevant video to anyone who works retail, it breaks you.

This is the WORST thing you can do to your employees.

I disagree with her a little bit on quantum physics (there is some truth to that attracting/manifesting idea, but not as much as a lot of people act like) but otherwise love this.

There is one truth to reality. There are, however, differences in how we describe it, since our language is not very precise, no matter how much we try.

Barbara Ehrenreich is a wonderful woman. Absolutely succinct framing of nonsensical "positive thinking".

Funny thing is that Trump actually construed the presidency as the role of cheerleader.

Without Positive thinking I wouldn't have beaten a serious Chronic illness.

Sometimes Positivity is all you have. It can be the difference between rising up to challenges or suicide.

Death is just Nature's way of telling you to slow down, relax and basically do pretty much nothing whatsoever. That's my goal.

This video is brilliant; the animations are wonderful and the overall message of realism is fantastic.
Check out the British philosopher John N Gray for somebody who talks about similar concepts just in a more detailed way. He usually gets, unfairly in my opinion, labelled a pessimist too.

It's pure "let them eat cake" bullshit.

this vid: circling (not addressing) around an issue (weak title) by "describing" it with the help of generalized buzz words that misleading meanings are attached to while ending on a weak note as well, please close your eyes when playing this vid a second time,ty.

What an absolute car crash of incoherent half thoughts.

Exactly so

To sum up Quantum physics as "positive thinking" does all involved a HUGE disservice.

Enjoy your "realistic" miseries together as I understand miserable energy attracts miserable energy or a some say, "misery loves company."

The examples she was citing were the extreme. There is a definite personal benefit to focusing one's thoughts towards things that are good, that is, in a general sense. So in other words, if everything else in life is fine, and you're just having a normal day, it usually does you more benefit to think about positive things than it does to think about negative ones. With that as your baseline, you can build a space upon that to process the thoughts and feelings that come with real life negative events. The process is most beneficial as a process, though, and can become destructive if it becomes rumination.

The whole positive thinking movement has been outed as a system of social control.

The happiness industrial complex is everywhere.

Impressive work! :)

Wow, I was actually thinking about that dumb book, "The Secret," during this video. Lo and behold, she actually brings up the book and talks about what a dick the author is lmao. The author and her book is a huge con.

Do you know how much of my childhood you just exposed to me? No wonder my mom always loved the adage "dont worry, be happy" while I was failing existence; it's exactly like soviet mind control!

she has not the slightest grasp of the difference between positive thinking à la self-help gurus and positive psychology as a field of research....

Yeah, but, if you are surrounded by negative people including, friends, doesn't that drain you and waste your energies? Whatever your situation, you will have to deal with any and all problems and feeling sorry for yourself like a lot of people do will not solve it! You have to take action because just because you may be sad for your situation, will not solve your problems. That said, being positive allows you to focus your energies on the problems and solve it to give you the best outcome possible. I would rather be positive as I find negative people only add to may problems and not help it! Negative people will never deal with their problems because they have to blame someone else instead, of themselves. And some problems are self-inflicted wounds. I know because I talk to friends who tell me their problems and I point out that they came to me for advise which I gave them but, they did what they wanted anyway despite, being told of the possible consequences of their actions!

Such a great talk! Can't believe I missed this.

the illustrator is superb ....

That what GOP fake Christian believe

The world matures significantly when it refuses to take Americans seriously......

I think the problem is really that the ideology of positivity is valued but genuine happiness isn't. People want to talk about such but when the choice is between emotions and agendas (e.g: cultural ideas of worth and deserving), agendas come on top.
Atomisation and muh bootstraps force a sanctimonious stoicism and alienation which prevent our id from being free to do its thing. People feel more alienated and less loved, do the next step is finding something else to hate.

I don't understand the point the speaker is trying to argue against. It seems to be about people thinking you don't need anything else than positive mental attitude to do anything ever, but I don't think anyone would think that. It doesn't even make sense, as of course it's not the only thing required. Don't get me wrong, the points raised by the speaker are very valid, but I don't think the attack against a book like The Secret or its author make the point any more relevant. It's a frustration against a belief that doesn't exist.

Can't get over what a genius talent the artist is.

Agree! It's like in the movie Coraline. The OTHER mother make the puppet doll Whybie smile all the time by sewing his mouth into a smiling shape. CRUELTY!

IMO, the author's point was not that there was a problem with Positive Thinking, Attitude, & a Smile (PTAS). I don't think she was saying that these things are not required. I took her issue to be with the mindset that PTAS is always either sufficient unto itself or the single most important factor to overcome every problem and every obstacle.

If I had a dollar for every time somebody insinuated that all my problems and obstacles would magically solve themselves and go away if I just had PTAS, I wouldn't need to work.

This is the exact method of control my mother has used on me since the day I was born.

I truly think this is true, many assume because I speak of being positive that I would love the book The Secret. I don't. I never have since I first smelled the book. This explains why. First time I have seen it spoken of so well.
I do believe we can create things by writing them down, dreaming them, walking the walk to make it happen and knowing when to let go and move on and excepting the fact we may not recognize the right moment to move on or hold tight but do recognize the value in walking the walk no matter how it turns out.