How is positive thinking useful?

If you don't believe you can pick up your hands and get up and walk you cannot do anything!

So, the first step in anything is believing that you might be able to succeed at something.

However, when someone tells me that they are going to walk off a cliff and fly I either try to rescue them or I call an ambulance or the morgue.

This then becomes the problem with positive thinking. Is it actually possible to do what you are trying to do or are you just going to die doing it?

If you are a positive thinker you first have to know what is possible and what isn't. Otherwise, people are soon dead.

But, positive thinking is what makes America what it is.

Other nations say, "You can't do that and we won't let you even try!"

America says, "Try anything you want to!"

But, often if it is a dumb assed idea people just die trying to do dumb assed things.

However, often people succeed at doing really impossible things and change the whole world.

This is especially true in California where I live and grew up.

We have a much better record for succeeding than most other places.

Why?

I think when you watch enough people die doing crazy things you learn something from it.

Positive thinking is probably the most useful thing regarding ongoing human survival on earth and beyond.