Self-help authors and motivational speakers usually recommend you to become positive. Well, being positive will certainly empower you, however, there has been some studies where it has been established that excessive optimism may actually backfire. Blind positivity is no more helpful than constant negativity. What you truly needed is a balanced perspective, a mind that can weight positivity and negativity, or let’s say a righteous mindset. What does this actually mean? Well, this means you are able to see or judge situations as they are, acknowledging both the light and the shadows.
