Esa chifladura general de los estadounidenses con el pensamiento positivo no sirvió para hacerles más felices.
La persona que sabe trabajar en equipo es, por definición, alguien positivo. Alguien que siempre luce una sonrisa, que no se queja, que no les da demasiadas vueltas a las cosas, y que se somete con bu...
Las grandes empresas cada vez se parecen más a lo que llamamos sectas: organizaciones que exigen total sumisión a un líder de inspiración divina.
Los empresarios confiaban en que el pensamiento positivo aplacara a las víctimas de las reestructuraciones y fomentara en los supervivientes las ganas de hacer un esfuerzo aún más heroico.
Por culpa de los seguros privados, muchos psicólogos clínicos ya no pueden tratar a sus pacientes como creen que deberían. Pero, dado que desean seguir trabajando para ayudar a la gente, están dejando...
A man who is a good lover to his wife is his children’s best friend.… Child care is play to a woman who is happy. And only a man can make a woman happy. In deepest truth, a father’s first duty to his...
As a teenager, I aspired to be a scientist, but too many things happened to distract me from that goal, so I became instead a science appreciator.
Durante siglos, al menos desde la reforma protestante, las elites económicas occidentales se han regocijado en la idea de que ser pobre es una situación voluntaria. Los calvinistas la consideraban una...
Everyone, from software writer to accountant, was now subject to the same insecurities as the lonely salesman once targeted by Norman Vincent Peale.
I couldn't help noticing that the existential space in which a friend had earnestly advised me to 'confront [my] mortality' bore a striking resemblance to the mall.
I had discovered that writing--with whatever instrument--was a powerful aid to thinking, and thinking was what I now resolved to do.
I wish I could say I rushed back and confronted George to get his side of the story. I wish I could say I stood up to Vic and insisted that George be given a translator and allowed to defend himself o...
In today's world, other people have become an obstacle to our individual pursuits.
La nueva teología positiva ya no se dedica a hacer juicios de valor tajantes ni a contar historias desgarradoras de sufrimiento y redención: lo que ahora se ofrece en las megaiglesias (y en muchos tem...
So this was the mental procedure, which even a little girl could learn: First, size up the situation. Make sure you have all the facts, and nothing but the facts—no folklore, no conventional wisdom, n...
Sometimes we need to heed our fears and negative thoughts, and at all times we need to be alert to the world outside ourselves, even when that includes absorbing bad news and entertaining the views of...
The early Christian patriarchs may not have realized that, in attempting to suppress ecstatic practices, they were throwing out much of Jesus too.
The organization of lab work was, and still is, entirely feudal. A lab was not only a place or a room or series of rooms, it was the fiefdom of a particular scientist. To go into a lab as a grad stude...
There are no secret economies that nourish the poor; on the contrary, there are a host of special costs. If you can’t put up the two months’ rent you need to secure an apartment, you end up paying thr...
Tonight, unhappy with your love, your job, your life, not enough money? Use your head. You can think yourself into a lot better you. Positive thoughts can transform, can attract the good things you kn...
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