Bright-Sided

Bright-sided: How the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich.

Another entertaining and enlightening book by Barbara E. Her conclusion in this book is to try to have a realistic outlook on life. And what I really like about this book (and her others that I've read) is that they seem to present such an honest look at American society. The book is not advocating that we should be miserable, but that obsessively trying to be positive is not a good approach either. She points out how this approach tends to put the blame on the victim. Like, if only you had a better attitude, your cancer would've improved, or you would've been promoted or not fired. Moreover, such an attitude can also distract us from taking more meaningful action about the bad things that happen.