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An eye opening article on the negative impact of positive thinking
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Hey!!
You know......Recently someone sent me a mail asking the reason for so much positive thinking, going in and around us.I knew very well at that time and still...... that my wisdom is like politics,Has its own limits.I am still at debt in answering that question and believe me some time it gets scary.
But the question is absolutely right....Why do we need so much positive thinking....And does in reality it effects our performance to think too much positive.
Does it hurt to think positive?
Don`t you think this positive thinking has made people more of a dependent on this phenomena.Rather then making us independent.
Why are we running from those negative thinking? These question are still unanswered in my mind.But if NASA would not have thought about those negative effects of going in space,It would not have been possible to visit moon.
If no -ve charge would have been there we would have still be playing with stone age players.
Here i am not advocating Plane negative thinking.....No if you got that, My mistake.
I am talking about constructive negative thinking....
One phenomena which has taken me on another level is CNT (Constructive negative thinking)and its effect on people and their performance.
What I Found:- I did some basic research(Still its continue......) and little insane experiment on my friends and colleagues. I separate my friends into 2 groups(That too with out telling them).One with whom i always used to talk about positive side of the coin and used to tell them about their good qualities(We will call them group A) and another with whom i never talked positive, not even talked about their good qualities just plain normal people(We will call them B). One day i challenged each member of both the groups to complete 5 specified task which were designed to test their attitude, to check their patience level, to understand their approach towards a task, to know the after work happiness and to have a clear understanding of before and after the completion of task (It was done with each member separately at individual level,as i didn`t have required finance).I started with asking few question about what they think about the task?and Do they think they can complete the task easily? If a task seemed impossible to complete in specific time will they keep on trying or move on? What can Make them quit their task?.
The answers of Group A and B had lots of difference.But the main surprise came after all the tasks were completed.Both the groups performed on a Near to similar level.Both the groups had 50% success rate,Most of the thing were similar except one thing...The group A members which were talking positively before the experiment,were still talking positive about performing well next time.But the result were showing that 45% member of group A got impatient faster then group B which distracted them from completing the task. More then 34% of the group A member were failed to concentrate on the task as the level of difficulty arose. In last we gave them some random thing like color, pics of various moods(Happy, sad, normal, angry,calm,normal) of men or women to choose and did an exercise of writing the very first thought in one word which crossed their mind when ever they choose something or were asked something.The result shown that around 73% were unhappy about their performance and were doubtful about their next performance although they were claiming they were happy and will do well in next turn.(If you want details of the research conducted,drop me a mail).
Their were many factors which needed to be mentioned here but i have my own limitations and even our research is still in infant stage.The only thing which i can say to you is right now is "Don`t be so much positive" It can hurt you and your performance.
Source of the article:- Don`t Be So Much Positive!! It can hurt you and your performace <link updated to site home> ( Search On Cite | Search On Google )
Thanks and regards
Ashish
An eye opening article on the negative impact of positive thinking
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hey!!
You know......Recently someone sent me a mail asking the reason for so much positive thinking, going in and around us.I knew very well at that time and still...... that my wisdom is like politics,Has its own limits.I am still at debt in answering that question and believe me some time it gets scary.
But the question is absolutely right....Why do we need so much positive thinking....And does in reality it effects our performance to think too much positive.
Does it hurt to think positive?
Don`t you think this positive thinking has made people more of a dependent on this phenomena.Rather then making us independent.
Why are we running from those negative thinking? These question are still unanswered in my mind.But if NASA would not have thought about those negative effects of going in space,It would not have been possible to visit moon.
If no -ve charge would have been there we would have still be playing with stone age players.
Here i am not advocating Plane negative thinking.....No if you got that, My mistake.
I am talking about constructive negative thinking....
One phenomena which has taken me on another level is CNT (Constructive negative thinking)and its effect on people and their performance.
What I Found:- I did some basic research(Still its continue......) and little insane experiment on my friends and colleagues. I separate my friends into 2 groups(That too with out telling them).One with whom i always used to talk about positive side of the coin and used to tell them about their good qualities(We will call them group A) and another with whom i never talked positive, not even talked about their good qualities just plain normal people(We will call them B). One day i challenged each member of both the groups to complete 5 specified task which were designed to test their attitude, to check their patience level, to understand their approach towards a task, to know the after work happiness and to have a clear understanding of before and after the completion of task (It was done with each member separately at individual level,as i didn`t have required finance).I started with asking few question about what they think about the task?and Do they think they can complete the task easily? If a task seemed impossible to complete in specific time will they keep on trying or move on? What can Make them quit their task?.
The answers of Group A and B had lots of difference.But the main surprise came after all the tasks were completed.Both the groups performed on a Near to similar level.Both the groups had 50% success rate,Most of the thing were similar except one thing...The group A members which were talking positively before the experiment,were still talking positive about performing well next time.But the result were showing that 45% member of group A got impatient faster then group B which distracted them from completing the task. More then 34% of the group A member were failed to concentrate on the task as the level of difficulty arose. In last we gave them some random thing like color, pics of various moods(Happy, sad, normal, angry,calm,normal) of men or women to choose and did an exercise of writing the very first thought in one word which crossed their mind when ever they choose something or were asked something.The result shown that around 73% were unhappy about their performance and were doubtful about their next performance although they were claiming they were happy and will do well in next turn.(If you want details of the research conducted,drop me a mail).
Their were many factors which needed to be mentioned here but i have my own limitations and even our research is still in infant stage.The only thing which i can say to you is right now is "Don`t be so much positive" It can hurt you and your performance.
Source of the article:- Don`t Be So Much Positive!! It can hurt you and your performace <link updated to site home> ( Search On Cite | Search On Google )
Thanks and regards
Ashish