Be Happy or Else

July 14th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk

I’ve rec­om­mended Barbara Ehrenreich’s cri­tique of “pos­i­tive think­ing” Bright-sided in var­i­ous venues before. I heartily recomend that every­one read the book. As a teaser, here is a short ani­ma­tion of a lec­ture by Ms. Ehrenreich based on the book. It’s funny, and absolutely true.

 

h/t to Pharyngula

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  • http://twitter.com/Moeskido Moeskido

    Fantastic. Thanks for post­ing this. It directly addresses the garbage a “moti­va­tional speaker” spewed in front of a for­mer employer’s annual all-hands meet­ing (where dozens of peo­ple who’d been given their ter­mi­na­tion dates had already been expected to show inter­est in the company’s sales fore­casts). He claimed that skill was less impor­tant than atti­tude. His proof: exhort­ing vol­un­teers to punch their way through a piece of wood. I kept hop­ing for Judd Apatow to yell “Cut!”

  • http://www.theangrydrunk.com The Angry Drunk

    I thank Satan every day that the only peo­ple who buy into this crap in my com­pany are the SalesDouches.

    Again I can’t rec­om­mend the book Bright-sided enough. There is a whole sec­tion given over to this topic, and the lec­ture in the video comes directly from the book. I think it’s even avail­able in the iBookStore.

  • http://twitter.com/Moeskido Moeskido

    Fantastic. Thanks for post­ing this. It directly addresses the garbage a “moti­va­tional speaker” spewed in front of a for­mer employer’s annual all-hands meet­ing (where dozens of peo­ple who’d been given their ter­mi­na­tion dates had already been expected to show inter­est in the company’s sales fore­casts). He claimed that skill was less impor­tant than atti­tude. His proof: exhort­ing vol­un­teers to punch their way through a piece of wood. I kept hop­ing for Judd Apatow to yell “Cut!”

  • http://www.theangrydrunk.com The Angry Drunk

    I thank Satan every day that the only peo­ple who buy into this crap in my com­pany are the SalesDouches.

    Again I can’t rec­om­mend the book Bright-sided enough. There is a whole sec­tion given over to this topic, and the lec­ture in the video comes directly from the book. I think it’s even avail­able in the iBookStore.