Thinking positively also builds self-esteem as it helps recognise our strengths and makes us capable of handling stressful situations.

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But the boy is Norman Vincent Peale, who grows up to become a churchman and bestselling author (The Power of Positive Thinking) so famous that he gets the honor of seeing his biography filmed ...

Margaret Talbot joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2004, writing Profiles in addition to dispatches and commentary on legal issues, cultural history, social movements, and indie music.