There’s always something a bit irritating about the eternal optimist, isn’t there? The one with the permanent smile, the cheerful chappie, the Teflon grin. The person without a hint of the downbeat. And perhaps you share the wider suspicion that behind it lies ‘Positive thinking’. Norman Vincent Peale’s famous and popular book, The Power of
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Deadpan, cynical, dry – whatever the words you use, they describe a way of being humorous which undercuts encouragement.





