Five years ago, I wrote my first post on Oh Ick.
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Positively Ehrenreich: Bright-Sided (Part II-ish, since it’s more about me than the book…) [From the Archives]
The optimist, the joke goes, sees the glass of milk and says, “It’s half full.” The pessimist sees the glass of milk and says, “It’s half empty.”
The cynic sees the glass of milk and says, “It’s probably sour.”
[Read more…]Positively Ehrenreich: Bright-Sided (Part I, perhaps) [From the Archives]
When The Secret came out in 2006, I had already been dabbling in self-help lore. I was mainly interested in time management; my family and I had been through a lot of changes recently (moving, job changes, new kids), and I was trying to find strategies to make myself feel less overwhelmed. But since time management, at least in the many forms I found it, comes packaged with all the other self-help paraphernalia of goal setting and positive thinking, I had already come across variants of The Secret and its focus, the “scientific” Law of Attraction.
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