Now was not the time for negative thinking, he decided.
But there was no point in negative thinking at the moment.
"I like to be aggressive and not have negative thinking, but the ball park makes you back off."
The primary difference was whether leaders accepted the value of negative thinking or not.
For men and women who are vulnerable to stress, negative thinking is often part of the picture.
A. We'll pass on the second part of your question, not wanting to encourage such negative thinking.
Negative thinking can trigger the your body's stress response, just as a real threat does.
But the key, it seems to me, is actually negative thinking: looking for, and sometimes expecting, failure.
Focusing on only the bad and not the good is an example of negative or distorted thinking.
Negative thinking, she told herself sternly, gets you nowhere, my girl.
