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Usually, these negative thoughts are observable on people with expressions like “I’m not good at anything. Science, Math, Speech, you name it. I can’t do it,” “I can’t face her. I’m just too shy. Will you just give her this for me,” or “What if I made a mistake? My boss will surely gonna kill me.”
No, not, don’t, can’t, won’t, and what if’s – these are the usual manifestations of negative thinking. It’s as if they have this function to build a wall between you and the place you’re going; thus, holding you back from doing something without even trying. That’s how evil negative thoughts can be.
Clash between Positive and Negative Thoughts
JOKE TIME!
A linguistics professor was lecturing to her class one day. "In English," she said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."
A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."
The concept of positive and negative exists in many fields of study. And in all of these, they seem to oppose each other. They are in constant conflict. Like in the above joke, in grammar and languages, they refer to expressions. Positive expressions state affirmations and agreement to something previously said, while negative expressions declare disagreements and differences of opinion in a discourse.
In mathematics, where positive and negative concepts also exist, they refer to integers. Positive integers are numbers greater than 0, located on the