Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World

Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World - Barbara Ehrenreich Everyone who read and preaches The Secret and everyone in the Irish Government and senior Civil Service should be forcefed this book. Barbara Ehrenreich got breast cancer and got annoyed at the constant message of not letting it get you down (I had cancer too, I had a Doctor tell me that because I was a bit down I should add to my daily cocktail of minimum 8 and maximum 18 pills with antidepressants because it was important to be positive about it all - feck that, cancer is not a reason to be smiley happy and postponing dealing with the emotions it dredged up wasn't going to make them any easier to deal with and might have postponed my return to work). She looks at the platitudes and pink ribbons, The Secret, and the faux science that has pervaded corporate culture. By the Way, if you have staff, keep them happy by ensuring that they have time for themselves, their families, enough money to keep them above the poverty line and stopping sending them on bull**** courses that mean that they have to work twice as hard when they get back to their job, and starting to value them for their input rather than regarding them as numbers. Angry, me? Maybe more of us should be.