Psychology research often suffers from only being able to study entities that don’t have much complexity. Positivity and negativity are both simple concepts.
If you look at someone like Elon Musk, the lense of positivity and negativity muddies what’s going on. When starting Tesla and SpaceX Elon gave both a 10% chance of success. You could deduce from that, that Elon is s pessimist instead of an optimist.
When it comes to your self-concept, having a self-concept that relates to reality is good. If you don’t, you are likely flinch away from important data. The late Steve Andreas describes in Transform Your Self a good framework of how to actually build a positive and reality aligned self-image.
Transform Your Self is a theory with a bunch of moving parts that is more complex then the simple positive/negative and that’s likely part of why there’s no academic engagement with it.
Even if you would want to stay with the positive psychology interventions, “tell yourself you are awesome” is inferior to “have a gratitude journal”. One of the aspects of a gratitude journal is also to relate to what actually happened in the real world.
Psychology research often suffers from only being able to study entities that don’t have much complexity. Positivity and negativity are both simple concepts.
If you look at someone like Elon Musk, the lense of positivity and negativity muddies what’s going on. When starting Tesla and SpaceX Elon gave both a 10% chance of success. You could deduce from that, that Elon is s pessimist instead of an optimist.
When it comes to your self-concept, having a self-concept that relates to reality is good. If you don’t, you are likely flinch away from important data. The late Steve Andreas describes in Transform Your Self a good framework of how to actually build a positive and reality aligned self-image.
Transform Your Self is a theory with a bunch of moving parts that is more complex then the simple positive/negative and that’s likely part of why there’s no academic engagement with it.
Even if you would want to stay with the positive psychology interventions, “tell yourself you are awesome” is inferior to “have a gratitude journal”. One of the aspects of a gratitude journal is also to relate to what actually happened in the real world.