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489. Is “Toxic Positivity” a Thing?

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Optimists and Pessimists: Notice Your Attention

Can you be too optimistic? Can this get toxic? If we go back to this attention hypothesis that even franklin had centuries ago. It's both possible to have a high centre of gravity when it comes to positive motion, and to be pretty stable around that. And i think to allow your intentional field to encompass these other things. So in other words, die hard optimists constant optimists should understand that there may be occasions where, even if you don't feel it, you should tone it down for the sake of others.

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