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3.0 out of 5 stars
dangerous advice given in chapter 10, May 4 2003
By A Customer
The advice summarized is:"...it is counterproductive to ever pass a negative judgment on anything that happens to you... When something happens - anything - before you pass judgment, consider this: It may be good." With a short slogan at the bottom: "No matter what happens, assume it's good." Since the slogan stands out that's what the reader is likely to remember. "No matter what happens, assume it's good." But this is really dangerous advice. I will give examples to illustrate this: 1) A man loses his job and says, "Hey, this is good". He doesn't seek work. Friend says, "Why don't you seek out work?" Man says, "Why? being unemployed is good." Friend says, "But you might end up on the street". Man says, "Well, maybe ending up on the street is a good thing." Man subsequently ends up on street and later dies of pneumonia with his final words being - "Hey, pneumonia is good." 2) Woman aboard airplane calls husband on cell phone "Hey, guess what honey? Our airplane has just been hijacked." Husband says, "Oh no!" Wife says, "Hey, don't worry, this is a good thing." Husband says, "I don't think so." Wife says, "Naw, I'm just going to relax and be patient." Airplane later collides with Pentagon. You may laugh and think that these examples are absurd, but they are the logical consequence of "No matter what happens, assume it's good." When we label something as good, there is no reason, no motivation to change it. After all "It's good!" When we label something as bad, there is a reason to change it - to get rid of it, to remove it. To label everything as good is to label threats to our life as good too. And that is downright stupid and dangerous advice.
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