Saturday, October 04, 2014

Inverse Paranoia

I'm listening to a Brian Tracy motivation / sales / goals book right now and he presented a pretty cool concept: inverse paranoia.

With paranoia, you believe that everything and everyone around you are conspiring to make your life worse. With inverse paranoia, you believe that everything and everyone around you are conspiring to teach you life lessons.

I like it! It's a neat mental model for dealing with setbacks.

2 comments:

IlĂ­on said...

"I like it! It's a neat mental model for dealing with setbacks."

Sure, but say it like this and every modern can see how pointless the idea is -- "All things work together for the good of them that love the Lord."

tim eisele said...

There's an amusing short-short story along these lines, called "Narapoia", where a fellow has "the opposite of paranoia".

Ah, here it is.