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A review by leviofmichigan
Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy by Whitney Goodman
challenging
informative
medium-paced
5.0
Laziness Does Not Exist taught me to use mindfulness and compassion to probe my own ideas behind a pretty stigmatized label like laziness, whether I’m putting it on myself or someone else. In that book, Price battles against the Calvinist, Puritan, basically old Christian dogma, to show that laziness, for one, doesn’t really exist, and two, is so much more complicated than we pretend.
This book teaches the reader to use, once again, mindfulness and compassion, to find the balance between toxic positivity and the negative attitudes toxic positivity is out to condemn. The author shows how, historically, toxic positivity was a pushback against the negative views of the Calvinists, that has now gone too far. When I talk about the mindfulness and compassion, I’m talking about asking someone who is complaining, “Do you want advice, or do you just need to get this off your chest?” Goodman never asks us to be toxically negative, to assume the worst, to insist others listen to our complaining, or anything of that sort. Instead, she guides us to a happy medium. Or, maybe, just a value-driven medium. In any case, this is a fantastic book, and I’m adding it to my “Social Justice Expansion” tag.
This book teaches the reader to use, once again, mindfulness and compassion, to find the balance between toxic positivity and the negative attitudes toxic positivity is out to condemn. The author shows how, historically, toxic positivity was a pushback against the negative views of the Calvinists, that has now gone too far. When I talk about the mindfulness and compassion, I’m talking about asking someone who is complaining, “Do you want advice, or do you just need to get this off your chest?” Goodman never asks us to be toxically negative, to assume the worst, to insist others listen to our complaining, or anything of that sort. Instead, she guides us to a happy medium. Or, maybe, just a value-driven medium. In any case, this is a fantastic book, and I’m adding it to my “Social Justice Expansion” tag.