Some people believe positive thinking has benefits, while others consider it has drawbacks.
Discuss both these views, and give your own opinion.
The concept of positive thinking has been around for many years. Some people believe that if we focus our minds positively, then everything will be all right, that by optimistic we will have happy, carefree existences, be healthier and live longer.
Thinking positively inspires us to endure in adversity, gives us a sense of well being, and reduces anxieties. If we tell ourselves we ‘can do it’, then any negative feeling of not being able to do something will disappear. By assuring ourselves we can achieve, then, we become more motivated and take the initiative. Say, for example, you have just been offered a promotion at work whereby you need to learn, more skills, assume more responsibility, and supervise a much larger staff. If you have negative thoughts about your ability to cope, then you may refuse the promotion. However, if you are more optimistic and tell yourself it is just a matter of easing into the job, learning along the way as others have done before you, you will accept the challenge. Naturally, you will be better off financially in your new position. Positive thinking, then, is what is in the mind.
However, I think that people who are always optimistic without considering possible pitfalls are living in a dream world, avoiding realistically assessing issues. I think our lives are governed more by how we feel and act rather than by just thinking positively about every issue. We need to feel positive about an issue before making a decision to act, not just think everything will be all right, without weighing the pros and cons. Thus the positive thinking can have its drawbacks.
An overly optimistic person will not always face facts and is not prepared to deal with life’s crises. Just thinking rich won’t make anyone rich; not accepting that a relative or friend is dying won’t make him or her well again; a hurricane heading our way won’t stop in its path. There are times when we have to prepare for the worst, may be financially, socially and environmentally and act accordingly. Although positive thinking is a useful attitude to have send has many benefits, we must also weigh up the negatives, looking at any opposing implications, so that we have a balanced view of life.
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Suggestion: Thus,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, however, if, look, may, so, then, thus, well, for example, i think
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 7.85571142285 191% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 24.0651302605 175% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1882.0 1615.20841683 117% => OK
No of words: 379.0 315.596192385 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96569920844 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41224685777 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75521885083 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 176.041082164 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.564643799472 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 607.5 506.74238477 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.9493366887 49.4020404114 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.555555556 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0555555556 20.7667163134 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.72222222222 7.06120827912 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.67935871743 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.132210434057 0.244688304435 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0500069296887 0.084324248473 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0444421558499 0.0667982634062 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0908533113007 0.151304729494 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0426790620021 0.056905535591 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.0946893788 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.4159519038 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.58950901804 94% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 78.4519038076 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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