Smile or Die

This is a very good talk. I think the world is flooded with too much of positivity thinking. As he pointed out he is not for negativity but realism.

Books like rich dad poor dad and the secret aren't based off analysis or science but anecdotal evidence.

I abhor anecdote; they only represent one data point and you could easily attribute that to being luck. They might as well give a strategy on how to win the lottery and then say look at Jane Doe she used the strategy and she won a million dollars. Give me a thousand Jane Doe who have done the same then we can talk, until then Jane Doe is just lucky.