Published in: Transformation
Why positive thinking won’t get you out of poverty

Published on: 11 September 2018

Written by: Farwa Sial and Carolina Alves All articles by Farwa Sial and Carolina Alves

To say that poor people don’t have enough hope, tenacity and aspiration is to deny their agency as well as the size...
Published in: Transformation
Why I choose Samuel Beckett over positive thinking, any day

Published on: 19 October 2015

Written by: Dionne Lew All articles by Dionne Lew

A good way to move forward is to say what we really feel, and dispense with juvenile solutions.
Published in: Transformation
No, you can’t ‘be the change’ alone

Published on: 31 July 2015

Written by: Alessandra Pigni All articles by Alessandra Pigni

Writer, activist and mindfulness-in-action pioneer Alessandra Pigni died from cancer in December 2018. This piece is...
Published in: Transformation
The dangers of radical self-love

Published on: 17 July 2015

Written by: Chloe King All articles by Chloe King

Positive thinking is no basis for social transformation. Better to seek out the truth than live in someone else’s fairy tale.

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