American Histories
Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
The Role of Positive Thinking in the Financial Meltdown of 2008
CNN's John Sutter says positive thinking played a role in the financial meltdown of 2008. He argues that if you have to assure yourself everything is going to turn out well all the time, you're in trouble. We need something called realism - trying to understand what's really going on in the world without just coloring the world with our wishful thinking," he said.
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