Norman Vincent Peale wrote a book called 'The power of positive thinking'. This was in 1952. His book was to stay on the New York
Times best seller list for 186 weeks. Vincent as a child developed an
inferiority complex that affected his life personally and professionally. With
time and positive thinking he overcame that handicap. He believed that if you
develop a strong sense of self and believe in yourself then you are more apt to
act on task. That if you do not believe that you can accomplish a task then you
will easily give up and not even try. Can you just imagine a salesman that
doesn't believe that he can sell the product to his customer? ...... Now,
imagine the salesman that believes in his ability to sell..... Which of them is
more likely to make the sale?... Which of them will study the product well
because he believes he will make good money off of it?.... Which of them is
more likely to get up early on the day of the sale, be excited about the
meeting, dress well for the meeting... And present himself and his
company well.
A criticism of the philosophy of positive thinking is
that it is a form of self-hypnosis. If you tell yourself enough times that you
can accomplish something, it will become part of your personality. Known as
autosuggestion. Is this a bad thing? Peale said, " Believe in yourself.
Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in
your powers you can not be successful or happy". With positive thinking he
felt you were less likely to give up on projects and would see them through to
completion. That obstacles that got in your way, would not seem so difficult to
overcome. That we would prefer criticism when we needed it as our self
worth would use that criticism to help us be stronger and more
successful. Problems that came out way, if we looked for the solution
would actually have the seeds for us to succeed. Because of our attitude we
would go into life with zest and enthusiasm.
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