You like to control everyone within your influence, to shape things to your own liking. If positive, you develop high spirituality, as you have a God's protection. You are sensitive, affectionate, imaginative and cooperative, spiritually aware and prone to self-sacrifice.ou like to control everyone within your influence, to shape things to your own liking. If positive, you develop high spirituality, as you have a God's protection. You are sensitive, affectionate, imaginative and cooperative, spiritually aware and prone to self-sacrifice.
A prideful person is defined in the negative way as one that has an unduly high opinion of oneself. It is one who is arrogant and one who seems haughty. But pride also has a positive side â when a person has dignity and self-respect. It also means that it is OK to have satisfaction in something that one has done or even in something that is owned. So as we can see, it is easy to cross the line from the positive characteristic of pride to the negative characteristic.
The downside of positive thinking. What could possibly be wrong with being positive? A lot of things, says Barbara Ehrenreich, in her articulate and deftly argued new book, Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America. Ehrenreich employs her usual mix of research, personal anecdote and incisive commentary to demolish the claims of positive thinking.