Not too Fast!

I agree with Boice that “positive thinking is… far more efficient” (159). Writing does need a certain degree of emotional stability. However, it is not always easy to replace negative thoughts with constructive thinking even though one keeps telling herself that thinking negatively is a waste of time. Sometimes the pressure of feeing the need to be positive will just bring about more negative s feelings about oneself. So, I would say that there is no need to feel pressured to switch from one emotion to another in a short period of time in order to become an efficient problem solver or writer. One should be allowed to feel bad or think negatively even though the process of this yields no concrete or visible results.

    But I do agree that positive thinking has much more positive effect on oneself, so I believe in the importance of replacing one’s negative thinking with the positive ones, but this does not have to be done hastily. Boice’s suggestion of stop and pause is very useful here. One can apply Boice’s idea of stopping in dealing with negative thinking. For example, I can pause to think through where the negative thinking comes from and why I think it negatively and how I can think it from different perspectives. One just needs time to think about her feelings and emotions before she can replace them with positive ones.