This book was a little too ‘cute’ and rudimentary for what I’d expected. Glickman makes a handful of good points, but surrounds them with ridiculous, contrived examples and an “I love me!” undercurrent that gets fairly sickening after awhile. What can be gleaned from this book I can sum up as follows:

Glickman shows us that positive thinking usually amounts to little more than ‘wishful thinking’, and begets no action beyond sitting, crossing fingers and believing. It’s passive, and in order to see changes we need a way of thinking that probes, asks questions, acknowledges the negative, focuses on the positive and then finds the best path toward the goal, and moves on it. This principle, Glickman contends, is at the heart of ‘optimal thinking’.