“But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.” -- Sarah Dessen— Kasey Chang (@kschang777) October 28, 2017
The original tweet is an attempt to reframe sunk cost fallacy as a virtue, when it's really a cognitive bias that leads you into making irrational decisions.
Think about it... Why is "working through" the pain is preferred way to resolve the pain, when it is just as easy to stop the pain altogether? Yet that is clearly the implication of the original tweet... by implying that your setbacks are only temporary, and as long as you dedicate sufficient effort you will succeed.
This is unrealistic, dangerous and utterly reckless thinking, yet what MLMers call "positive thinking". Positive thinking was repopularized recently because some author copied a 1910 book and added some pseudoscience to unproven pop psychology. And MLMers ate it up.
Yes, I am talking about "The Secret".
First of all, the Secret is not new. As I said, it's a rewrite of a 1910 book with some new pseudo-science references to quantum physics that really made no sense. It is basically magical think: if you ask and believe, you shall receive. It's a rephrase of Bible Matthew 21:22, yet somehow this was generalized to anything in life.
Yet there are a lot of stuff you don't know that's in The Secret... And they are things you won't hear about from the MLMers who don't want to read about "negativity", even if it's in the book that taught them about positivity.
