Comments on: The Magic of Positive Thinking http://cheapcanuck.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/the-magic-of-positive-thinking/ Money, Real Estate, Passive Income and Early Retirement Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:08:00 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: The Financial Blogger » July Top Ten Posts http://cheapcanuck.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/the-magic-of-positive-thinking/#comment-483 The Financial Blogger » July Top Ten Posts Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:03:34 +0000 http://cheapcanuck.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/the-magic-of-positive-thinking/#comment-483 [...] The Magic of Positive Thinking by Financial Security Quest: An interesting post about how your way of thinking my influence your [...] [...] The Magic of Positive Thinking by Financial Security Quest: An interesting post about how your way of thinking my influence your [...]

]]> By: Carnivals and More - Million Dollar Journey http://cheapcanuck.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/the-magic-of-positive-thinking/#comment-354 Carnivals and More - Million Dollar Journey Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:34:00 +0000 http://cheapcanuck.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/the-magic-of-positive-thinking/#comment-354 [...] Security Quest reviews "The Secret" and gives his opinion on the [...] [...] Security Quest reviews "The Secret" and gives his opinion on the [...]

]]> By: Mr. Cheap http://cheapcanuck.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/the-magic-of-positive-thinking/#comment-336 Mr. Cheap Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:05:12 +0000 http://cheapcanuck.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/the-magic-of-positive-thinking/#comment-336 FJ: I definitely think a realist can become a positive thinker (with the perspective I wrote about, not if they define it in religious/mystic terms). I don't think being logical is a problem. The only issue is when people confuse being rigid and close-minded with being logical. Logic is only useful based on the premises that you're working with. Mr. Spock would routinely make absolute pronouncements that logic dictate things must be a certain way. Kirk would then discover new information that would violate Spock's pronouncement, and he'd then incorporate the new information and acknowledge that things are different then he original expected. What he should have been doing instead (as all logical people should) is saying "given my current knowledge, logic would POINT towards X, if I learn something new, this could easily change, so X is far from certain". You would incorporate how likely it would be that you'll discover new information (a certainty on the ncc-1701, and pretty certain with anything you're going to deal with here on Earth) when you're thinking about X. That's my perspective anyway, it might change when I learn something new ;-). FJ: I definitely think a realist can become a positive thinker (with the perspective I wrote about, not if they define it in religious/mystic terms).

I don’t think being logical is a problem. The only issue is when people confuse being rigid and close-minded with being logical. Logic is only useful based on the premises that you’re working with.

Mr. Spock would routinely make absolute pronouncements that logic dictate things must be a certain way. Kirk would then discover new information that would violate Spock’s pronouncement, and he’d then incorporate the new information and acknowledge that things are different then he original expected.

What he should have been doing instead (as all logical people should) is saying “given my current knowledge, logic would POINT towards X, if I learn something new, this could easily change, so X is far from certain”. You would incorporate how likely it would be that you’ll discover new information (a certainty on the ncc-1701, and pretty certain with anything you’re going to deal with here on Earth) when you’re thinking about X.

That’s my perspective anyway, it might change when I learn something new ;-) .

]]> By: FinancialJungle http://cheapcanuck.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/the-magic-of-positive-thinking/#comment-335 FinancialJungle Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:39:58 +0000 http://cheapcanuck.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/the-magic-of-positive-thinking/#comment-335 Do you believe it's hard for a realist become a positive thinker? One of my buddies said I'm too logical. Too logical? Is that bad? I used to be a "neutral" thinker. Logical thinkers like Vulcans should be freed of emotions, right? (Opps, now everyone knows I'm a Trekkie.) My attitude has changed. Positive thinking is logical. It does work. Positive thinking emits extra umph in your efforts to achieve your goals. It's real, you can almost touch it, and you can reap the reward. Do you believe it’s hard for a realist become a positive thinker? One of my buddies said I’m too logical. Too logical? Is that bad? I used to be a “neutral” thinker. Logical thinkers like Vulcans should be freed of emotions, right? (Opps, now everyone knows I’m a Trekkie.) My attitude has changed. Positive thinking is logical. It does work. Positive thinking emits extra umph in your efforts to achieve your goals. It’s real, you can almost touch it, and you can reap the reward.

]]> By: Riscario Insider http://cheapcanuck.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/the-magic-of-positive-thinking/#comment-334 Riscario Insider Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:31:30 +0000 http://cheapcanuck.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/the-magic-of-positive-thinking/#comment-334 "Positive thinking won't let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will" --- Zig Ziglar If you've ready self-help classics, you won't find much new in The Secret. It's entertaining, though. Here's my review <a href="http://promod.blogspot.com/2007/02/unsecret.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. “Positive thinking won’t let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will” — Zig Ziglar

If you’ve ready self-help classics, you won’t find much new in The Secret. It’s entertaining, though. Here’s my review here.

]]> By: The Financial Blogger http://cheapcanuck.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/the-magic-of-positive-thinking/#comment-332 The Financial Blogger Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:11:30 +0000 http://cheapcanuck.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/the-magic-of-positive-thinking/#comment-332 Great post! Positive thinking makes you see things another way. Our brain is the most powerful tool we have to create anything. Unfortunately, we are raised to use it a certain way. As creativity is not rewarded as it should be (at school for example!), positive thinking bring your mind to a world where everything is possible. Other people might describe it as opening your mind. Great post!
Positive thinking makes you see things another way. Our brain is the most powerful tool we have to create anything. Unfortunately, we are raised to use it a certain way. As creativity is not rewarded as it should be (at school for example!), positive thinking bring your mind to a world where everything is possible.
Other people might describe it as opening your mind.

]]> By: moneygardener http://cheapcanuck.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/the-magic-of-positive-thinking/#comment-331 moneygardener Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:07:43 +0000 http://cheapcanuck.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/the-magic-of-positive-thinking/#comment-331 Very boring movie. Interesting concept. You sum up my feelings about the concept well in your post. Very well actually. Very boring movie. Interesting concept.

You sum up my feelings about the concept well in your post. Very well actually.

]]> By: MillionDollarJourney.com http://cheapcanuck.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/the-magic-of-positive-thinking/#comment-330 MillionDollarJourney.com Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:38:30 +0000 http://cheapcanuck.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/the-magic-of-positive-thinking/#comment-330 How did you know about the bicycle? ;) How did you know about the bicycle? ;)

]]> By: Mr. Cheap http://cheapcanuck.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/the-magic-of-positive-thinking/#comment-329 Mr. Cheap Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:19:34 +0000 http://cheapcanuck.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/the-magic-of-positive-thinking/#comment-329 D'oh! Please don't!!! ;-) D’oh! Please don’t!!! ;-)

]]> By: moneygardener http://cheapcanuck.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/the-magic-of-positive-thinking/#comment-328 moneygardener Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:56:33 +0000 http://cheapcanuck.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/the-magic-of-positive-thinking/#comment-328 You've inspired me to rent 'The Secret' tonight. You’ve inspired me to rent ‘The Secret’ tonight.

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