Comments on: Power of the Positive

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:16:18 +0000

I think there was some evidence that the anti-drink driving ads in the UK in the 90s had a big impact on reducing drink driving, but now it is on the increase again. I also remember hearing that the seatbelt ‘clunk-click every trip’ campaign in the 70s/80s was effective (although not as effective as legislation). These campaigns tend to be very memorable, for instance everyone of a certain age in the UK remembers the ‘Think once, think twice think bike’ campaign which featured a hammer smashing a peach apart – but as you say I don’t know if it actually influenced number of bike related deaths.
If you haven’t seen them, in the 70s the British public safety films were quite possibly the scariest things ever – see this one and be afraid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZWD2sDRESk

Martin

By: jfborges (Jorge Borges)

jfborges (Jorge Borges) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:04:54 +0000

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By: Karen Dunlap

Karen Dunlap — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:33:05 +0000

Positivity…the perennial link to family lives lived in the vogue of Ozzie and Harriet, Leave it Beaver, or perhaps even Bonanza. A return to yesteryear when it was acceptable to value the inherent goodness of all people. The PSA provides a glimpse of that era. How refreshing!

By: Courtney Woods

Courtney Woods — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:01:23 +0000

I think that in a world that is full of so much negative that positivity is a very useful resource. This PSA sends a very powerful and effective message. In this society we become so desensitized to so much of what we see. I’ve never seen a commercial quite like this and I wish we had more of these types of messages being sent out. Maybe it would make people think a little harder about what really matters in life.

By: SmithMillCreek (Jim)

SmithMillCreek (Jim) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:21:48 +0000

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By: Steve Ransom

Steve Ransom — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:25:27 +0000

I think we all respond to things of beauty and significance at a very deep level. Family is beautiful. Relationships are to be cherished. This PSA does a brilliant job pointing this out. Showing bodies flying and dead or injured friends has some shock value, and I guess sometimes we need to be shocked back to reality when we have moved so far from it that we can’t understand the beauty any longer. But I’m with you – positive messages are so much more attractive. As Ryan mentions, optimism is contagious – and a choice we must all make. Mainstream media seems to thrive on producing negative and controversial messages that resound with us all on a very base level. I think we would have a very different culture here if we celebrated the successes and the positive and the compassionate and the intelligent much more than Jersey Shore and political mosh pits.

By: tonydecapreo (Tony Decapreo)

tonydecapreo (Tony Decapreo) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:40:51 +0000

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By: Ryan Maksymchuk

Ryan Maksymchuk — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:51:54 +0000

Alec,

This one makes me think a little…(good thing on a Thursday evening). We’re both Dads of little kids, and I think that ‘positivity’ you speak of is inherent to the job description. Luckily, in addition to a few short years behind the parenting wheel, we also have experience in many classrooms over time, where we’ve learned that the adages of ‘don’t write kids off’, ‘hope for it’s own sake’, and ‘kids do great things, sometimes even in spite of us’ make me come back for more every semester, every year. I tell my students, my children, and anyone who gets close enough long enough that optimism is a choice. You’re not naive. You’re compassionate, and human, and a real thinking person. For that, your students are lucky (tell them I said so), and your children are fortunate. The much-mentioned ‘tipping point’ is always closer than we think. I hope that very much….

Thanks for all you bring to my professional learning. I hope I can return the gesture sometime…

Ryan Maksymchuk