[avindroth]

People think thinking positive thoughts is hard (and you should strive to be positive).

But thinking negative thoughts when you are positive is equally hard as its counterpart.

Trying to not go in the path your mind is directed towards is the difficulty - mind doesn’t care about + or -, just whether or not the emotional response is appropriate (according to its learned/perceived set of beliefs and circumstances).

[inflatableDodo]

I find that practicing cynicism, starting with myself and working outward, has been the thing that has led to more of a positive outlook than I have ever previously attained. I was angry and depressed for decades until I stopped taking firstly, myself and secondly, the rest of society, so damn seriously.

We have created a fiction called 'the human'. And we have then endowed it with all the best qualities from our myths, legends and stories. We then spend the rest of our time attacking ourselves and those around us, for not measuring up to something that was never actually real in the first place.

[avindroth]

Yeah if we stopped taking everything so seriously we would get more things done.