A review by unwisely
Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation by Gabriele Oettingen

3.0

This book was disappointing - I went into it with super high hopes, after having seen the interview with the author in the Yale online happiness class. I thought the book would go deeper and give useful tips on operationalizing the methodology, but I felt like it was a rehash of the course topic, with very new. (To be fair, my goals and problems weren't any of the ones used as examples....but I would have liked some other applications.)

On the one hand it's very satisfying to have science backing up the intuitive reaction that positive thinking is pointless and listing problems is necessary to, you know, solving them, so that was nice, but I was not impressed with the book.