“Motivation is garbage.” – Mel Robbins

All I’m proposing here is that there are things that produce certain effects and outcomes that you cannot reach except through doing certain things or activities. You cannot reproduce these same results except by doing these things and only these things. No amount of mindset, positive thinking, or anything can bypass that. You do a certain activity and you get a certain result or outcome. You cannot get this same result or outcome by any amount of mindset or positive thinking, even if you wanted to, no matter how hard you try. You can argue that mindset and positive thinking might help, but with or without them, the entirety of the positive results or outcomes expected from doing such things or activities will be the same anyway, no more, no less, and thus the belief that mindset or positive thinking could be dismissed as totally useless is not entirely irrational.

The proposition here is to not undermine the role of mindset and positive thinking in the quality of your life, but to put every factor in its rightful place without ascribing to it something that it does not exclusively or entirely deserve. It is about having a concern for meritocracy. Not favoring a group of factors for success that could be easily removed from the equation while still maintaining the possibility of obtaining the same results even in their total absence. This is not to say they only have a placebo effect. This is to say that they have no effect at all in the first place if it was possible to produce the same results consistently with or without their presence, which makes the proposition that all your problems arise from the lack of these irrelevant factors understandably outrageous. I don’t have to be a leftist to arrive at that conclusion. I only have to be fair and honest with myself.

No amount of mindset, positive thinking, or alignment with the law of attraction can make up for not doing certain things, activities, or behaviors, or can help you reach the effects and outcomes that you can only reach through doing those things, activities, or behaviors, and cannot reach without doing them.

For example, physical exercise. The benefits of physical exercise, including those that are upon your mood, cannot be achieved by any amount of mindset, except only as a motivating force which can help you engage in a habit of exercising, even if you don’t feel like it, ironically enough, without waiting for motivation to come first.

Even if you have all the amount of mindset or positive thinking in the world, nothing will change if you don’t exercise.

Focusing on mindset and elevating its status or importance to such extent like it’s the ultimate solution to all your problems, and as if it’s the only reason why you’re failing is a serious problem.

It is next level hypocrisy that is too infuriating to not point out.

Even if fixing your mindset could be helpful to some extent, it shouldn’t take all the credit for changing your life to the better, nor should you rely upon it to any significant extent without taking significant action towards your favored objectives simultaneously as well.

Even if you had a negative mindset, you’ll still get the entirety of the benefits of physical exercise, if you actually put in the work and do the physical exercise, even if you do it without a smile on your face.

Blaming most or all of your failures on mindset or negative thinking is a form of gaslighting to say the least.

And no one seems to bother criticizing it because it is being propelled by people who have no idea what they’re talking about, and defended with the same level of out of proportion rage as that of religion, due in no small part to the rampant spread of superstition and new age spirituality in the developed world.