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True Positivity Is Not Naïve

Jeff Fox
10 min readMar 27, 2020

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Genuine optimism isn’t about acting like everything is wonderful, it’s about believing there are answers and believing we will find them.

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There’s good news and there’s bad news and there’s good news and there’s bad news. The good news is our attitude towards life is ours to choose. The bad news is our attitude towards life is ours to choose. The good news is our attitude shapes our perception of the world in a way which will reinforce and perpetuate that same attitude. The bad news is our attitude shapes our perception of the world in a way which will reinforce and perpetuate that same attitude.

The world matches the way we choose to see it because that choice shapes and aims our perceptions.

The pandemic has become a source for countless different struggles around the globe. The most intense are those being fought in the front-line medical spaces which are either being swamped or are bracing for it. While for the vast majority of us the best thing we can do to aide in those struggles is to stay home and prevent further infections by refusing to be carriers for the virus that also then locks us into intense internal struggles with the two most difficult of mental and emotional enemies, uncertainty and helplessness.

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Jeff Fox
Jeff Fox

Written by Jeff Fox

A professional dancer, choreographer, theatre creator, and featured TEDx speaker with an honours degree in psychology, two black belts, and a lap-top.

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