Positive thinking is defined as a mental attitude or world view of optimism that interprets situations and events as being the best. Positive thinking has been used in various organizational behavior context and the general idea is to accept positive thinking as being good. The main idea of positive thinking is that one must banish negative thoughts. Only positive thinking should be pursued and implemented. But is this positive thinking is really beneficial? Analyze how positive thinking would lead to sub optimal decision making process in the context of non-programed decision and programmed decision making.
Yes, positive thinking is really beneficial. If we think in a positive way, we will have positive results and will be happy most of the time.
Positive thinking also improves one's decision making capacity. If an individual is in negative mood, then he/she may not take any decision have a positive impact. Thus an individual with a positive vibe will be freely to think of many possible decisions which have an overall positive impact. This will be highly useful in both programmed and non programmed decision making process.
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