Positive Thinking: A Self-Experiment

Alice Frick
Nov 2 · 4 min read

Stay positive. No matter what: just try to stay positive. But then, unfortunately, life gets in the way: phones get stolen, families are awful, people break up and countries get brexit-ed. How should we stay positive?

I thought it was time for me to do a self-experiment to see how positive I can stay in a really awful situation. If you want, you can try this at home. One of the most effective ways is to get inspired by the movie Dangerous Liaisons and have your partner break up with you, like John Malkovich with Michelle Pfeiffer, by only using the words: “It’s…

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