{"id":54348,"date":"2014-10-15T10:32:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T08:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=54348"},"modified":"2014-10-15T10:32:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T08:32:03","slug":"oliver-burkeman-the-negative-path-to-happiness-and-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=54348","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Burkeman: The Negative Path to Happiness and Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/101751706?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=e91c6b\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/101751706\">Oliver Burkeman: The Negative Path to Happiness and Success<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/99u\">99U<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Get motivated!&#8221; and &#8220;stay positive!&#8221; are common bits of self-help advice. But have we gone too far in our penchant for positivity? Leaning on research (including a story about Mount Everest climbers), reporter and author Oliver Burkeman shares the counterintuitive insight of how abandoning goals and allowing some negativity in can actually be helpful.<br \/>\n&#8220;Theres a real benefit to find ways to loosen our grip as goal driven people. When you look at successful entrepreneurs&#8230;you find they don&#8217;t follow this stereotype.&#8221; We should instead remain ready to adapt where we are heading and embrace uncertainty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Burkeman: The Negative Path to Happiness and Success from 99U on Vimeo. &#8220;Get motivated!&#8221; and &#8220;stay positive!&#8221; are common bits of self-help advice. But have we gone too far in our penchant for positivity? Leaning on research (including a story about Mount Everest climbers), reporter and author Oliver Burkeman shares the counterintuitive insight of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":120525,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=120525","url_meta":{"origin":54348,"position":0},"title":"Oliver Burkeman: The Negative Path to Happiness and Success","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"15\/10\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Oliver Burkeman: The Negative Path to Happiness and Success from 99U on Vimeo. \u201cGet motivated!\u201d and \u201cstay positive!\u201d are common bits of self-help advice. 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