She say's “Powerlessness” not “Perilousness”. Though either might be apt.

I think she misinterprets the point of positive thinking. The point is not that thoughts can change external reality (which would be magic), but rather that positive thinking can help the individual overcome setbacks. If we sit and bemoan our fate, we won't work to change it. If we think positively — that we can make things better — we will work to make things better. we are hard wired to be optimists; in the face of defeat, we pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and start all over again. Those who did survived and passed on their genes; those who acceted defeat were less likely to do so. Being optimistic and overconfident had survival value, even if such attitudes aren't always realistic.

I agree she is missing the point of positive thinking. She ends with professing our collective power and yet how could we all come together to express that collective power if we do not learn how to express that power for ourselves first. Much like the airlines ask you to put thew oxygen on yourself prior to helping others, the human race must learn how to empower themselves and then we will be in a position to help other. In addition comparing the positive thinking movement with socialism is just plain silly. I find this video divisive and trying to push a point that serves no one. If we are truly going to create a world that works for everyone we must begin by thinking such a world can exist and that will only happen when we all think positively. The positive thinking movement is not about smile and get over it, rather it is change your thinking and you will change your life, not in a flash but over time, and we do not teach “Get over it” but rather get on with life in a new, uplifting, positive way. My 2 cents. peace and Blessings because “Life is GOOD” All the time.

This storytelling approach is very innovative. I think opposing viewpoints would have a very hard time getting anyone of comparable innovative talent to do an opposing stop animation scribe because Truth and McTruth are magnetic opposites. Just look at the cheezy corporate graphics on conservative news versus so called progressive or liberal sources. Dedicated artists and or innovators are hunter-gatherers, not brainwashed over-consuming, corn-fed domesticated cows.

Although not stated in the animation I think the take away could be positive thinking and smiling aren't targeted enough to realistically solve anything. It might be better to think about a bad turn of events more specifically with humor and satire. Humor and satire are the collision of incongruent thoughts. We laugh when we relinquish the tension set up by this incongruity. What remains is relief with insight and the energy to push towards are more reasonable solution. When a cartoonist or a comedian can craft a joke or metaphor about something it shows both a careful look at the many facets of a problem plus it is infused with a energy to move forward.

I think she misinterprets the point of positive thinking and I like her!

Crazy. Those who don't use the techniques of positive thinking, and have no experience with the improved outcomes making commentary about how cruel it is and how it doesn't work. I used to be more of a realist, more pessimistic, and I have grown into someone that works to control how much I allow my thoughts to linger on what's wrong with this or that. My life is much different, much better. Things do flow more easily to me in success. Actually making positive thinking work in your life is much deeper than just think a good thought and it shows up. You have to practice and work that just like growing a muscle. Consider taking a moment at the end of each day to list on a page the good things that happened. Do that for 30 days and see if it changes anything.

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I think it's an extremely pertinent lecture that touches upon some serious issues in a very positive way. The target is not the individual who is at liberty to think positive thoughts to change the individual world that that individual is living in. The target is the corporate world driven by greed and (yes) ignorance, where anyone who is not towing the party line and underlining the company's (or country's) message that sales will keep increasing, more more more of everything is fired. I have seen this happen, and it's obscene. The person who said that the Tsunami victims were thinking Tsunami thoughts and therefore brought it upon themselves needs to see a therapist. Imagine the outcry if she had said that all 6 million victims of the Holocaust had been thinking Holocaust thoughts and therefore deserved the gas chambers, or that all those people in the Twin Towers on 9/11 had clearly been not thinking the right kind of thoughts or they would not have attracted the bombs that blew them away. I have just spent the last six months in Singapore, and wish I could show this to every man woman and child here…..

Excellent. This is a beautiful and intelligent illustration of the trend of insanity which has become mainstream in certain countries. More importantly, it illustrates how dangerous this irrational belief or 'philosophy' can be for the economy, the social system, the international relations and how closely it resembles tyrannical societies which do not tolerate critical and constructive thought. It is a reflection of common sense which unfortunately is not so common anymore. Congratulations.

What a great point for discussion. There is certainly something to be said for “THINKING” and how we do it. The idea of “positive” thinking is hit perfectly here and it is much different than “Purposeful” thinking. Here is an example… Thinking about wanting $1 million, is far different than the way Victor Frankl thought during his time as a prisoner in the German Concentration Camp. He had purposeful thinking, and that is what got him to the point where he was counseling the prison guards before he was freed.

Spot on. I think her message is more about pointing a finger at exploitation or hijacking of 'positive thinking' ideology for quelling dissent than anything else.This is not the same thing as preaching 'negative thinking' or pessimism, as some of the commentators below wrongly assume.

Wouldn't it be relevant to note that we are indeed in varying degrees of downsizing in every possible imaginable way and once we are stripped to the basics we will regain and choose more carefully and sustainably what really matters most to us as individuals and who we are, on all levels. Tomorrow is a new day, if we are down and out today, this week, or for the year, it is the most opportune time to develop who we are and what really matters.

This reminds me of a tragic loss of the English language. That is the lack of distinction between scepticism and pessimism.

Scepticism can mean to question ideas and institutions, which (especially as a scientist) is a very positive quality! Scepticism really is a virtue (unlike some other crappy virtues, such as “faith” which I have no respect for!) that should be explicitly taught in schools. Yet the word has such negative connotations by it's relation in the collective mind to pessimism.

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

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“Embedded in all this is the idea that you change the physical world with your thoughts.”
It is actually the way you feel that makes a change, and it is reality being changed, not necessarily the physical world. If you don’t think there is a difference between these two, how about trying some LSD or maybe mescaline and see how does that feel for real? Or you think this “suggestion” is too “radical”? A few things this lady does points alright though.
First, we do have to try and figure out what is actually happening in this world and see what we can do about those parts that are threatening or hurtful, although I am afraid that, since most (if not all) social problems are man made, there are people who know the causes, not too mention the solutions. So going around looking for solutions that are already within someone’s reach today (what’s the news on the Millennium Development Goals?) seems to me as delusional as sitting and waiting for a great hand to come down from the sky with a box written “Answers to all problems” on it.
And second, there is not one fixed truth of reality. But are we closing in on something? Is that a scientific forecast? Is reality due to reveal itself in its wholeness at a specific moment in time? And what if that something proves to be, I dunno, the fact that, done properly, people can change the physical world with their mind? I mean, isn’t it somehow delusional to think human civilization is getting closer to the outer shell and it’s about to brake it? What if we are not even fertilized yet?
I don’t see how and idea like Realism differs from any other be it communism, capitalism, liberalism, existentialism, materialism, or whatever isms people try to impose (or suggest, as this lady) on human thoughts and feelings. But maybe I’m blind. Anyway, you can smile or die, or die anyway. But you can always choose the way you feel while you live.

It was a good animation..and the smiling Faces are always going to be perfect. and it was good explanation that “don’t complaint..do your work”..it was so amazing thought..really its helped me lot..thanks for given this animation

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