The Power of Positive Thinking responsibility for mistakes. The Power of Positive Thinking The Power of Positive Thinking is a self-help book by Norman Vincent Peale, originally published in 1952. It makes use of positive case histories and practical instructions to propose the method of positive thinking. Peale's work describes how to achieve a permanent and optimistic attitude through unending positive conscious thought, usually through affirmations or visualizations. Peale writes that such techniques will give the reader a higher satisfaction and quality of life. Though negatively reviewed by scholars and health experts, "The Power of Positive Thinking" became popular in public opinion when first published
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking nature, "Blink" exploits popular new-age beliefs about the power of the subconscious, intuition, even the paranormal. "Blink" devotes a significant number of pages to the so-called theory of mind reading. While allowing that mind-reading can "sometimes" go wrong, the book enthusiastically celebrates the apparent success of the practice, despite hosts of scientific tests showing that claims of clairvoyance rarely beat the odds of random chance guessing. Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman, author of "Thinking, Fast and Slow" which speaks to rationality's advantages over intuition, says: Malcolm Gladwell does not believe that intuition is magic. He really doesn't...But here his story