For too many years we have been taught that the magic recipe for happiness is simply to look on the bright side of things. But will focusing on the positive make problems go away and eradicate the emotional pain they cause?
Buenaventura del Charco offers an intelligent and scathing critique of the sugary messages of self-help books that, under the colorful umbrella of “positive thinking”, sell formulas for self-improvement and “personal growth” that don’t stand up to an assault in the real world.
An honest, brave and direct work that, in contrast to all those ineffective and empty recipes, focuses on how to face problems and understand one’s own emotions in order to accept and overcome them, instead of ignoring them as if they didn’t exist, covering them up with “glitter, unicorns and colored confetti”.
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