The Bleak Future of Positive Thinking

> More focus

> 4 weeks of Headspace can increase focus by 14%, and just a single session cuts mind-wandering by 22%.

> Easier teamwork

> 3 weeks of Headspace shows 21% more compassionate behavior, and cuts aggression and reactivity to negative feedback by 57%.

Mindfulness is being packaged and sold as a productivity enhancement.

I can't go a day without seeing some article, some post, some tweet, some blob of text from the internet telling me to stop being positive. Stop trying, it's all hopeless. There's some race or class based caste system immutably shackling me to failure, everything is hopeless and we should all give up.

Fuck you. Maybe I'd care about your failures if you weren't framing them as mine.

I can see how someone benefiting from some power structure can tell others to use positive thinking - to keep the actual issue from being criticized.

What a terrible, bigoted site.

The part about helping solders calm themselves being sinister really floored me. It seems like this mentality rather than positive thinking faces a bleak future.