{"id":6114,"date":"2014-11-02T13:01:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T21:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/?p=6114"},"modified":"2014-11-02T13:01:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T21:01:29","slug":"positive-thinking-reality-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/positive-thinking-reality-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive Thinking + Reality = Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/positive-thinking.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6115\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/positive-thinking-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"positive thinking\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/26\/opinion\/sunday\/the-problem-with-positive-thinking.html?module=Search&amp;mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A17%22%7D&amp;_r=0\">interesting New York Times<\/a> article debunks the power of positive thinking, to a point. The article describes research which found that people who simply think positively feel less energy, have less motivation, and accomplish less than those who don&#8217;t think positively (or negatively).<\/p>\n<p>The research indicates that a combination of positive thinking and thinking about the realistic challenges that people will face as they pursue their goals led to more energy and motivation, and better results.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the takeaway? Be positive, but also realize that it will be difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting New York Times article debunks the power of positive thinking, to a point. The article describes research which found that people who simply think positively feel less energy, have less motivation, and accomplish less than those who don&#8217;t think positively (or negatively). The research indicates that a combination of positive thinking and thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1520],"tags":[185,326,922,373,924,925,926,611,333],"class_list":["post-6114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology","tag-confidence","tag-doubt","tag-faith","tag-hope","tag-optimism","tag-pessimism","tag-positive-thinking","tag-trust","tag-worry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}