Positive mental attitude
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Sep 16, 2026
David BassousHOST
They can't see ahead.
David BassousHOST
Most of these people who are successful in life, the most important thing, positive thinking.
David BassousHOST
They don't take no for an answer.
David BassousHOST
It's-- This guy I just talked about, he bought a company four times his value of his company.
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David BassousHOST
It's so hard.
David BassousHOST
Positive.
David BassousHOST
Positive thinking.
David BassousHOST
The importance of positive thinking.
Kristin Kobes Du MezGUEST
If you think about that live, laugh, love culture that I just listed off, all of those things, we're talking about evangelical women, yes, but we're also talking about Mormon women.
Kristin Kobes Du MezGUEST
We're talking also about positive thinking, a more secular philosophical tradition.
Kristin Kobes Du MezGUEST
We're talking about charismatic women and mainline women, right? It's a much more complex culture.
Kristin Kobes Du MezGUEST
And there are reasons for that that I get into in the book, that women are participating in this world primarily as consumers.
Kristin Kobes Du MezGUEST
And nobody's going to stop you from tuning into Joyce Meyer and then also Beth Moore and And just reading across a kind of theological spectrum and then also dabbling in secular positive thinking stuff.
Kristin Kobes Du MezGUEST
It's all out there to be consumed and it all blends together.
Kristin Kobes Du MezGUEST
So what I do in the book then is I go back to the 19th century and I kind of trace back these three distinct strands that then influence each other.
Kristin Kobes Du MezGUEST
You follow these rules, these spiritual laws, and you're going to find spiritual success and happiness, right? That's holiness evangelicalism.
Kristin Kobes Du MezGUEST
So life is transforming really rapidly.
Kristin Kobes Du MezGUEST
And so in the spiritual realm, people start asking, "Well, you know, are there new ways of understanding the spirit? Are there new ways of understanding how the mind and the spirit interact or, or the mind and the body interact?" And, and so they have these theories that are just bubbling up, drawing on things like hypno- hypna- uh, hypnotism, mesmerism, right? Can you actually control physical reality by your, the way you think? And then it, it evolves into New Thought, this idea, again, the mind shapes reality, and by the early 20th century, that evolves into what is a familiar term to most of us, the philosophy of positive thinking.
Kristin Kobes Du MezGUEST
And so think Norman Vincent Peale here.
Kristin Kobes Du MezGUEST
But all of it is really centering the will, centering belief, that if you believe something, you can make it happen.
Joshua JohnsonHOST
Kristen Kobes-Dumé returns today to talk about her new book, Live, Laugh, Love.
Joshua JohnsonHOST
It traces how 19th century holiness teaching and new thought positive thinking merged into a faith that promised women power right where they stood and taught them that naming what was wrong was itself the sin.
Joshua JohnsonHOST
So in this conversation, we follow the thread from Hannah Whittle Smith to corporate campaigns against the New Deal, from a YMCA small group in 1910s China to communist thought reform and back into post-war evangelical totalism through MLMs and Christian publishing gatekeepers to the blogosphere and Beth Moore.
Joshua JohnsonHOST
We also spend time with the Elizabeth Elliot most people have never met, the one in the 1960s who called Christian literature propaganda and was calling people into an idolatry-less Christianity.
Kristin Kobes Du MezGUEST
If they believe, then the spiritual laws will kick in and they will be sanctified and find holiness and happiness, right? So it's this nice little formulaic faith that pushes back against Calvinism and instead says, you can be successful.
Kristin Kobes Du MezGUEST
as a Christian in every way.
Joshua JohnsonHOST
That brought in something called new thoughts, positive thinking that merged with this holiness theology as well.
Joshua JohnsonHOST
How did those things merge? How did we get to a place where we're theology of something and this new thought or positive thinking merged together?
Jed SmithHOST
And I guess this is the strength of punk music, right? And this is something you first told me about was, you know, punk rock in Indonesia, one of the real appeals of it and the reason it's so big, it's because you get to let it out.
Jed SmithHOST
All of this like angst about the corruption and the system and the poverty and the fucking bullshit that you all know that you live under, right? uh you're able to release it uh through punk rock and i guess this is kind of always been uh why punk rock has existed you know like it is a it's cathartic it's a place to release uh your demons in a safe space where people are respectful and take care of each other um and you also mentioned uh you're the first person to tell me about um PMA, Positive Mental Attitude, which I think is a legacy of the Bad Brains.
Jed SmithHOST
Yes.
Jed SmithHOST
Tell us a bit about your dedication to PMA and why punk rock is so good at helping Indonesians deal with the fucking shit show.
Denny Novikar NasutionGUEST
So,
Jed SmithHOST
I think,
Denny Novikar NasutionGUEST
yeah, the positive mental attitude, it just give us, me personally, to keep it going, to be myself, to believe what I believe, to do what I love and what I believe, and just keep pushing, you know? And I don't know any other, the subculture things that, it's in me so much as the PMA and the punk rock thing, the ad thought of like DIY and shit.
Denny Novikar NasutionGUEST
Just, I don't know, it just keep me, keep it going, you know? And also if I was, if I'm with my, my friends are down and then I was just like, hey, it's okay.
Greg KretschmarHOST
Mm-hmm.
Greg KretschmarHOST
Mindfulness and positive thinking may boost heart health in just weeks.
Greg KretschmarHOST
Yes.
Greg KretschmarHOST
So if you have a positive outlook and you are mindfulness and aware of yourself and things that you've got to do and blah, blah, blah, you can help increase your happiness.
Rick ThorneHOST
It's so good because every chapter he talks about different things.
Rick ThorneHOST
And he invented the PMA.
Rick ThorneHOST
The PMA is like what a lot of punkers use.
Rick ThorneHOST
They say, well, Bad Brains came out with a song called PMA.
Rick ThorneHOST
Got that PMA.
Rick ThorneHOST
Got to have that PMA.
Rick ThorneHOST
But it means positive mental attitude, right?
Gabrielle VargasGUEST
That was the name of the dispenser I used to work
Ricky C. SimmonsHOST
So keep doing what you're doing and just know that people are watching, especially me, and it's inspirational for me as well.
Ricky C. SimmonsHOST
I got a positive mental attitude tip of the week I would like to start off with.
Ricky C. SimmonsHOST
And when I say positive mental attitude tip of the week,
Jack DouglasGUEST
These are things that I personally do.
Jack DouglasGUEST
I
Ricky C. SimmonsHOST
just share them on air.
Ricky C. SimmonsHOST
And my positive mental attitude tip of the week this week is real simple.
Ricky C. SimmonsHOST
Man, stay out of people's way that you know aren't good for you.
MariahHOST
And if you have a negative mindset, you're not going to be able to do what your full potential can do.
MariahHOST
But like if you have a positive mindset and want to work through things and really like smile through the journey, that's what Smile Zone is.
MariahHOST
Like you're smiling through the journey, having fun.
MariahHOST
If you really try and do that, like you're going to go as far as you can.
MariahHOST
So that's why you just always have to have a positive mindset and just like go through things step by step and stay on your journey.
MariahHOST
Yeah.
AaronHOST
Well, I mean, I can just tell you, I mean, you know, we're similar in age.
Jay JacksonGUEST
So smile is an acronym smile.
Zig ZiglarSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Good attitude.
Zig ZiglarSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Somebody who's good attitude, got PMA, positive mental attitude.
Zig ZiglarSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Flexible.
Zig ZiglarSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Somebody who is flexible, got that one.
Zig ZiglarSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Consistent.
Zig ZiglarSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Attitude.
Zig ZiglarSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
PMA.
Zig ZiglarSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Attitude.
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