Why do some people seem magnetic while others just seem to repel people? Why are some people so happy, even at those way-too-early board meetings? The answer, while seemingly complicated, is actually very that individual probably has a positive mindset.
In his book Positive Making Good Things Happen in Life and Work, Donald Sandel provides a roadmap to creating a better life through improving your mindset with positivity. Using science and real-life stories, Sandel asks the questions needed to accomplish this, Sandel has dedicated this chapter of his life to creating a better world through mindset and attitude and now wants to share his insights with you. After all, why should we settle for each day being ordinary when it can be extraordinary?
I think there is great value in finding things to be positive about in live, and not nourishing negative thought loops. I don't think this book did a great job of selling that point, at least not for me.
I think the format of the book was often to blame as it was punctuated by the over simplification of studies and the over-extrapolation of individual experience stories.
The world is a complicated and often difficult place to thrive. The struggles we all face when trying to just be happy are real. There wasn't a real acknowledgement of this and the message felt too often essentialized into, "be happy, its good for you."
There's nothing inherently wrong with the ideas, I just don't think it was presented overly well, and I think other self-help books have done a better job.