Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermined America

Once positive emotions outnumbered negative emotions by 3 to 1—that is, for every three instances of feeling gratitude, interest, or contentment, they experienced only one instance of anger, guilt, or embarrassment—people generally flourished. Those below that ratio usually did not.13 But Fredrickson and Losada also found that positivity had an upp

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.