Click Here to be Part of the Family - A few days ago with my girlfriend we saw a program called Brain Something… and one episode was actually very interesting. In this episode there was an audience of people, paid by the program, who had to encourage a blindfolded person who had never played basketball, while, on the other hand, the same audience had to mock a basketball professionist, still blindfolded.

The absurd thing about this experiment, is that both people scored more or less the same points.

And the next day we did the same thing with a Dutch game called Sjoelbak, I really hope I got it right, sorry Dutch community. So on the turn of my girl, her mother and I, cheered for her, and in only one run she reached double the points that most people usually score. With no experience in the game or practice.

So my question was: how effectively is positive thinking able to influence a person's success?

During my studies on this topic, I have found that the people who most achieve success are positive people, and positive people are happy people... they are those people who face problem´s life, failure, progression in a different way, getting in return a positive advantage. Which is the exact opposite of negative people…. negative people who actually face life with pessimism, perceiving the disadvantage in what they do.

So, logically, if I am positive: everything that happens later... despite the differences, despite the complications, despite the problems.. everything leads to a positive result, so everything converges towards a positive result. If I am negative, regardless if the problem is big or small, everything converges towards a negative result.

It is actually a concept that I know very well. The thing that surprised me about the tv show is how positive thinking can act in such a short time. It literally amazed me ... And so I did some additional research:

Positive people have more energy: I see it for myself, I consider myself a very positive person. I decide when to be tired ... If I am motivated to do what I do, I have energy to spare. This gives me the opportunity to achieve higher and higher goals regardless of the time frame, regardless of the amount of failures.

So positive people are people who have more energy, more energy means more resistance ... resistance to problems, failures, resistance to what is happening around them.

It doesn't mean that positive people see everything pink and flowers… beware.

The time of suffering, the time of falling, the time of sadness, the time of depression is always present, it still exists and it differs from person to person regardless of how positive you are. But the reaction time of a positive person is always much faster than a negative one.

But, another question you have always to consider about this topic is: how much do you really care about achieving that goal? Returning to my girlfriend, she is a competitive person when it comes to games… While, in my case, my ambition is generally to have fun. In fact, returning to the game I mentioned before, I was trying to cheer myself on and around me there was an air of positivity towards my run when it was my turn. 

However, I was scarce, and scarce I remained. And the reason is because  I didn't give much importance to winning. So… talking about success, How much you like to win in your life to achieve that goal… How much importance you like to give for the dream you want to achieve? Your answer is very important. Because of that, you'll be able to form that line that separates failure from success.

Fabio P.

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