Optimism and Wishful Thinking

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The Positive Power of Negative Thinking
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Look at the bright side.  Keep a positive attitude.  Pull yourself up by your own boot straps.  If you set your mind on it, you can do anything.  In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, a rosy view of optimism and wishful thinking.  And for you cynics?  A look at the positive power of negative thinking.  So chin up, it’s a walk down the sunny side of the street.

  1. Richard Weiss on "The American Myth of Success"

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    Richard Weiss tells Steve Paulson why figures like Horatio Alger, Norman Vincent Peale and Dale Carnegie are so compelling for Americans, and why we’re unlikely to give up our national optimism.

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  2. Julie Norem on "The Power of Negative Thinking"

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    Julie Norem is the author of “The Power of Negative Thinking.”  She tells Jim Fleming about her strategy of “defensive pessimism,” and explains the good it can do.

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  3. David Perkins on Eureka Moments

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    David Perkins, founding member of Harvard think tank Project Zero, talks with Anne Strainchamps about Eureka Moments.

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  4. Matthew Fox on Original Sin

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    Episcopal priest Matthew Fox tells Steve Paulson why the belief in Original Sin is destructive and leads to a culture of pessimism.

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  5. Robert Zubrin on Going to Mars

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    Robert Zubrin explains how he thinks we should go about colonizing Mars, and how settling a new world will save this one.  And he describes how NASA’s using his ideas.

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