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The Magic of Thinking Big: 1959: David Schwartz: success The Master Key System: 1916 Charles F. Haanel: optimism The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: 1997: Robin Sharma: health Perfect Combination: 2012 Jamillah and David Lamb relationship The Power of Now: 1997 Eckhart Tolle: optimism The Power of Positive Thinking: 1952: Norman Vincent Peale ...
The Power of Positive Thinking: A Practical Guide to Mastering the Problems of Everyday Living is a 1952 self-help book by American minister Norman Vincent Peale.It provides anecdotal "case histories" of positive thinking using a biblical approach, and practical instructions which were designed to help the reader achieve a permanent and optimistic attitude.
Due to the book's fame, "Pollyanna" has become a byword for someone who, like the title character, has an unfailingly optimistic outlook; [1] a subconscious bias towards the positive is often described as the Pollyanna principle. Despite the current common use of the term to mean "excessively cheerful", Pollyanna and her father played the glad ...
The Book of Positive Quotations eventually climbed to #2 on the U.S. reference charts. [1] Fairview Press also released six break-out editions of the book in 1997 under the trademark Pocket Positives(TM). In 1999, Fairview Press sold hardcover rights to The Book of Positive Quotations to Gramercy Press, an imprint of Random House Value ...
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The Pollyanna principle (also called Pollyannaism or positivity bias) is the tendency for people to remember pleasant items more accurately than unpleasant ones. [1] Research indicates that at the subconscious level, the mind tends to focus on the optimistic; while at the conscious level, it tends to focus on the negative.
It appears in hardcover, [5] with 960 pages and weighs roughly 2.2 pounds (1.00 kg). [3] The preface for 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up is by children's illustrator and author Quentin Blake and introduction by Julia Eccleshare . [ 2 ]
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress is a 2018 book written by Canadian-American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker.It argues that the Enlightenment values of reason, science, and humanism have brought progress, and that health, prosperity, safety, peace, and happiness have tended to rise worldwide.