This video below is a companion piece to TJ's latest article called Positive Thinking Won't Save Us, which draws insights from Barbara Ehrenreich's book Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America. Here she expands on the topic of how the ethos of positive thinking was absorbed into the coporate world, and how it contributed to the financial crisis of 2007. As always with these RSA Animate series of videos, the combination of images and words brings the ideas to life in new and powerful ways. (TJ gave an intriguing possible reason for this phenomenon, which you can read here).
