The 5 Best Positive Thinking Books: Optimistic Like Fred Flintstone {Reading Tip}

Whether you see life as a tango or a bus ride, we all have to suffer from blows of fate such as dismissal or illness. What matters is how we deal with it.

Ask the fate to dance

First, the book by one of the most prominent German psychologists on dealing with personal upheavals. An important book with a lot of good advice on dealing with strokes of fate. Because it's like tango dancing: it always takes two.

Fate has many faces: a serious illness, the death of a relative, unemployment, the end of a long love relationship. As different as the causes are, the effects have a lot in common: Those affected literally freeze in discouragement and feel unable to reorient their lives.

Why me?

The clever book "Tango Vitale" by the renowned psychologist Eva Wlodarek applies Peoplewho cannot or only with difficulty detach themselves from traumatic experiences of the past and remain in the "why me"? question.

Eva Wlodarek helps those affected to accept the new situation with a great deal of sensitivity. And to discover and use the hidden development opportunities, each personal Crisis provides.

Gain control over fate?

The title of the book “Tango Vitale” is derived from the English saying “It takes two to tango” and is the appropriate summary of your guide: “You are not simply at the mercy of your fate, but also determine which direction it takes - also when the initial situation seems hopeless. ”

Wlodarek describes this guiding principle in the first chapters in detail and in understandable words: “By discovering the cause in ourselves, we make ourselves independent and win it Control about what is happening, both positive and negative.

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Find new perspectives

We are given the opportunity to reinforce or change something. When you discover the root cause in yourself, you are given the freedom to determine whether you want to be happy or unhappy regardless of external circumstances. ”

Honest, convincing and emotional, Wlodarek conveys new perspectives in her book Affected. At no time does she fall into pathetic pity formulas, but uses scientific knowledge and quotes to place her arguments. In addition, there are numerous mini-case studies of people who could use unforeseen events for positive twists in their lives.

Good recipes instead of miracles

Towards the end of the book, you will learn how to systematically develop into a “lucky guy” who will consistently recognize and use the opportunities that arise in the future. Even if the late chapters do not reach the signal strength as the beginning and main part of the book, a very good overall impression remains.

Read this book if you suffer from personal defeats or strokes of fate and long for new impulses. Wlodarek doesn't offer any panacea, but enough recipes for "first aid" and self-therapy.

Learn to think better on vacation without effort?

Thinking is not a happiness but an ability that can be trained just as well and must be like all other abilities as well. Carl Naughton wrote an exciting book. By the way, also an ideal and far-reaching holiday experience!

You can do it without hitting the back of the head. If you want to improve your thinking skills, you only have to deal a little with thinking as a process. And amazing things are opening up. Carl Naughton, Lecturer in Educational Psychology at the Cologne Uni, got to the bottom of the thinking.

In his book “The Autopilot in the Head” he shows how we can train and improve this key skill. How we come to better decisions, how we learn to judge better, how to solve problems. An ideal training book to come back from vacation as a mastermind.

Energy-saving mode when thinking - Caution Danger!

The greatest danger in thinking is “not thinking” or, as scientist Carl Naughton puts it, “the autopilot in your head”. And this danger has fundamental biological causes. Because as living beings we are governed by a few basic programmings. One of them is called "Energy save".

In terms of thinking, this means: "Why should I worry about something I have known for a long time?" And already the door is open for unfortunately only supposed abbreviations. Because if it does not explicitly say “new”, we will be lazy. And, as Carl Naughton describes in an entertaining way, fall into a lot of thought traps.

Caution thinks

Thinking leads us to the wrong results. For example, by simply calculating certain (random) experiences (the last marketing chef was a chatterbox, so the new one will also be a chatterbox).

We consider non-binding price recommendations to be binding (they set an anchor on which we base the evaluation of the product). Or we hold on to investments, although they have long since turned out to be a wrong decision (the expensive theater tickets “sit down” even though the play cannot be endured). According to Naughton, the reason for these short circuits is our “memory”, which is far too scarce.

Thinking is not a happiness

Carl Naughton does not stop at naming the thought traps. As an educational psychologist, he also knows and teaches counter strategies. It shows how we increase the memory capacity (for example, by taking a short nap or, a little more sophisticated, by thinking in analogies and metaphors) or how we overcome blockages in action (by bridling the horse from behind in a "dispute" and that view the whole situation in a different light).

And who about the right one decision struggles, follow Naughton's advice to do "semi-automatic activities" (walk, bike, jog, shower). Because they are the door opener for decisive insights. Conclusion: Absolutely worth reading. Because Naughton shows that thinking is not a matter of luck - but a skill that can and must be trained just like any other skill.

Quirky thinking error

A nice “reading book” has been published by Hanser. In it, Rolf Dobelli has compiled the most interesting results of brain and behavioral research in recent years at a high literary level.

The writer and entrepreneur Rolf Dobelli has now compiled 52 of the most concise and bizarre “misconceptions” here. In the Art of clear thinking” he offers very good entertainment, which playfully delivers epistemological added value.

Entertaining, insightful and humbling. It will clearthat we are not as reasonable as we think we are. A good companion at all Career- and ways of life.

Smoking sign from the maze of reason

The fox jumps up with all his might, trying to catch the sweetest grapes on the vine. But he jumps too short, just can't make it. "Pah, they are angry anyway, they should get stuck," he says and steps back into the forest with his head held high.

Over two and a half thousand years ago, the Greek fictitious poet Aesop showed how reasonably unreasonable we often behave. Today, the behavioral economy and brain research provide almost daily new evidence of these self-deception strategies.

Think like Fred Feuerstein

When a few people look up at the sky, we stretch our heads too. If the ball on the game table falls on “black” a few times in a row, we bet on “red”. When the disaster struck, they suddenly saw everyone coming (but not before).

Why do we keep making mistakes like this all the time? Rolf Dobelli explains this with the "cold" theory of irrationality. Accordingly, thinking is a biological event that has evolved. However, not like that fast, like our external environment.

Hearth and Orakelei

And so today we still fall for the herd instinct (if suddenly some of the group start running, they may have seen a woolly rhino and it is useful, also to run.)

And instead risks and opportunities of a project (or a Action) correctly based on sensible criteria, we prefer to look at how the project has developed in the past. As if that's always in the past Background to the Future (“I'm fine!” said the Christmas goose on December 23).

When it's better not to think

Rolf Dobelli has been collecting studies and studies for six years Article about the all too human weaknesses in thinking - in order not to fall into the next best trap when making important decisions. But he also learned from less important ones Ask just out of your stomach decide.

Because “thinking clearly is time-consuming. So if the potential damage is small - don't worry. " Conclusion: Each of the 52 short mistaken thinking stories is polished from the first to the last line and beautifully composed. The new findings of brain research and behavioral economics are hardly more literary.

Everyone feels irreplaceable!

In the past, one's job has often lasted a lifetime, today the length of stay is in Companys shorter. But being released doesn't hurt any less. For many it is a personal defeat and the frustration is great. Therefore, this time a great book on the subject of being fired. By an author who knows what he's talking about!

How does one feel when treated like bulky waste? How do you keep the version? And why do you have that Executivewho fires one, not too pitiful? Any questions that Andreas Nentwich answers in this book.

A layoff hits many like a bolt from the blue. The seemingly innocuous request, “Could you just go into my Office come?” has pulled the rug out from under the feet of even the most stable natures.

Unexpected

Because although “disinvestment of human capital”, “redundancy” and “outplacement” today at the Agenda are, dismissals are usually poorly prepared and implemented miserably.

With the result that for those affected a Welt collapses. Now the “experienced flyer” Andreas Nentwich shows how to get back on your feet quickly. So that nobody sneaks out of the yard like a beaten dog, but leaves the square with their heads held high – and with a full wallet.

The author knows what he is writing about

Nentwich knows that Problem from first Hand: He himself was a successful manager at Nestle, considered himself irreplaceable and therefore irrevocable – until he was dismissed in 2009.

Being fired is one of the most unpleasant experiences that the professional life provides. To mitigate horror and surprise, Andreas Nentwich takes a closer look at two crucial phases.

Aversion is usually based on reciprocity

On the one hand, it sharpens the senses for threatening situations and conditions. For example, he highly recommends anyone who is angry with their boss I aufmerksam be.

Because aversion is usually based on reciprocity, and the likelihood is high, so Nentwich, that you even on the hit list of the boss is - and indeed at the top.

Always ready to go

The second crucial phase is the one immediately after being kicked out. The author and consultant Andreas Nentwich knows from many conversations the emotional spin in which the fired end up. The feelings range from the absolute shock shock to the feeling "finally free!" to be.

An important chapter, because it shows that being fired is not an individual stroke of fate, but much more “business as usual”. So it means being prepared. For example, that the mailbox and the company account are blocked from one day to the next.

Against the stain of expulsion

That you are asked to give the mobile phone immediately. Or that you have to leave the office from now on in an extreme case. Therefore, the urgent advice to never store private data on company equipment.

The book “Fly out with Success” is balm for the souls of the fired. And it contains the right tips to master the situation in the best possible way, both materially and psychologically.

You always meet twice

The book is also recommended for executives. So that they can find out what they can do with poorly prepared and executed terminations (you always meet twice). And because too Executives are not immune to layoffs.

Although layoffs to Everyday life in a dynamic Society belong, getting fired is still considered a blemish. Good advice is all the more important in an emergency. Andreas Nentwich shows those affected that they are not alone. And that there are good opportunities to prepare for and overcome the crisis. An important book.

Ten tips for better leadership

Pictures are always good to make us aware of something, because the brain emotions, which we often associate with such images, takes on better. This is also the case in this book, in which life energy is compared to a bus. ten concrete maxims for a more positive and happier life.

Life is like a bus ride. Some are sitting tax, the others go with you. And those who drive themselves have to contend with those who nag in the back seat, with those who would rather go somewhere else and with the cynics who happily wait for the moment when everyone will hit the wall.

Jon Gordon, more successful Coach and best-selling author, chooses bus driving as metaphor Therefore, Employees to win for cooperation. He manages it wonderfully easily. In “The Energy Bus” he shows what managers have to do to drive full steam ahead. There are essentially two things: Fill up on positive energy. And negative turn off energy.

Storytelling and positive energy

It is certainly not the first book on “Leading with positive energy”. But one that, in the manner of storytelling, sums up a few basic rules of leadership (and life). The focus is on department head George.

His shop is made up of a bunch of unmotivated people who have absolutely no interest in the forthcoming, decisive one Presentation to win.George is with himself, with the Family and with the world at the end.

At the decisive turning point

Then comes two weeks before the presentation, also a tire tire. She forces George to go to work for ten days by bus. And these ten days bring the turn. Because it is exept the bus driver Joy, which fills him every day an important rule.

Simple knit pattern, good effect. This is also because the author draws on Jon Gordon's fullness when he portrays the situation of department head George.

Energy vampires pull the tooth

Anyone who recognizes his everyday work in the following small sample is well served with this book: In one sequence George finally has the guts to be one of his destructive employees Behavior address and demand a significant change.

The employee's answer: “Are you kidding?… The only one who is destructive here is you. The problems we have are not up to me. The result of this is that you cannot lead. I don't put my shoe on. Better find the buck with you… ”Gordon calls these guys energy vampires. And he says what to do with them.

Switch off and think

Ideal holiday reading to review a few things from a safe distance. The book entertains, stimulates and proposes new ones ideas and potential solutions in focus. Very suitable for all executives.

Precisely because it looks beyond the famous “leadership tools” and focuses on positive and negative emotions. And it almost asks the essential question: “Are you on the right bus?”

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