India, Sept. 29 -- If you ever went through a rough patch in your personal or professional life and happened to search the existing self-help space for any practical solution, you are most likely to stumble upon the omnipresent advice of looking at the positive side of your current situation. Quite a vast landscape of self-help space is often found dispensing the advice of positive thinking - the efficacy of which is debatable, to say the least.

A person with low self-esteem is highly unlikely to become a confident person by merely faking the so-called behavioural nuances of a confident person. Since that person didn't feel particularly confident, to begin with, in his honest effort to convince himself otherwise merely reaffirmed his neg...