Comment by Folcon on The 5-Second Level · 2015-01-20T01:28:08.656Z · LW · GW

A bit late, but thank you for the insight.

Comment by Folcon on The 5-Second Level · 2011-05-29T08:43:27.590Z · LW · GW

Could someone give me the reasoning for why silver lining thinking itself is bad? Making mistakes is inevitable and so I would have thought this is a way to start to look past the mistake and try to give it a sense of perspective. Falsely rationalising a bad thing into a good thing is not valuable, however taking a bad thing and working out how to use the situation you are now in into a more positive experience or if you are completely stuck, realising that it is time to move on I would have thought to be a useful skill. Please explain if you believe that I am wrong.