What does positive thinking have to do with learned helplessness? what does belief has to do with it?

Why do I fight positive thinking, why am I trashing it?

This morning I got to a realization: the students that are not making strides, not moving higher on the evolutionary scale are the students that are confusing “there is nothing wrong in reality” with positive thinking.

Positive thinking says: avoid negativity. Turn your back to it. Make up something nice to say about things you don’t like, don’t want.

The French has a saying: The more things change the more things remain the same.

This is a principle: true in every area of life.

If you hate something, dislike something, you want to change it. Why? because you don’t like it. Because it is wrong. So you do something to it… but the wrong doesn’t go away. The new changed thing sits squarely on the top of wrong. It is not the wrong… yet the wrong remained. In the thing, in…