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Is your glass half empty or half full? Here's the short version of what I've come to believe after more than 30 years of sitting across from families in a clinical practice. The glass is not half of anything. It is full. What is not liquid is air, and air is the part we stop noticing the moment we have enough of it. Noticing the air, not just the water, is most of what this book teaches.
I call it being Pathologically Positive. I mean the word "pathological" the way a doctor means it: something that shows up reliably, again and again, whether or not the day earns it. Not a mood. A pattern. I did not arrive at this from a chalkboard. Years ago I spent a week chipping through six inches of concrete floor with a hand chisel and a two-pound sledgehammer, trying to move a shower drain, until a neighbor came back with a hammer-drill. The tool made the work faster, but it still needed a power source, and that is the whole idea in one afternoon. Most of us are chiseling by hand at problems that have a power source sitting right next to them.
That is what I mean when I ask you to think of a problem as a "propportunity" instead: a better way of looking at the same set of facts, one that shows you the opportunity folded up inside the problem. Once you see it this way, you do not fully un-see it.
If you have already read the free first chapter, you know this voice and you know this idea. What you have not seen yet is the rest of it.
Why is this free?
I would rather put the actual book in your hands than ask you to trust a sales page describing it. The book does the convincing better than I can in a few paragraphs here. So I am not asking you to buy it sight unseen. I am asking you to cover what it genuinely costs to get a printed, bound copy from a warehouse to your mailbox, and nothing past that.
What is the catch? There is not a hidden one, but here is the honest answer. This is not a $1 trial that quietly turns into a subscription, and I will not bill you again later. It also is not a sample or an excerpt; you already have the free chapter if that is what you wanted. What I cannot yet tell you is the exact day your book lands in your mailbox. How quickly books ship is something we are still nailing down on our end, so I would rather tell you that plainly now than promise a date I cannot keep.
Who's behind this
I am Dr. Paul Jenkins, a Positivity Psychologist with more than 30 years in clinical practice, and that same practice is what built this book. It is also what is behind my YouTube channel, Live On Purpose TV, which has run since 2013 and has crossed 450,000 subscribers and 32.5 million views. If you want to check the work before you trust the book, that channel is where it is sitting in public. This is not the first thing I have ever written down. It is the one I hand people first when they ask where to start.
Here's exactly what shows up at your door
This is a real, printed book, shipped to the address you give at checkout. Nothing about it is digital-only, and none of it sits behind a login.
The full paperback of Pathological Positivity
- Every chapter, not an excerpt. The same book the free Chapter One sample comes from.
- The "propportunity" framework, start to finish — how to read a problem for the opportunity folded inside it, worked through in a hard marriage, a hard kid, a money problem, a day that goes sideways from the first phone call.
- Chapter 6, "Power Tools" — the concrete-floor story in full, with the specific tools I use to find the power source behind a shift in thinking, not just the shift itself.
- The chapter that draws the line between real positivity and the performance kind, so you're not left wondering whether this is one more "just smile" book.
- Every chapter, built to apply to a real day, not just to sit as theory — the same shift, worked through inside a marriage, inside a hard week at work, and on the days nothing goes right.
- A book, not a login. 240 pages, printed and bound, that you can mark up, dog-ear, and hand to someone else without asking anyone's permission first.
The deal, in plain numbers
Pathological Positivity, full paperback
Price: Free. Shipping is $9.96 for US addresses and $19.95 international, charged once at checkout. Anything else (the one-time bundle) is optional, shown only after you say yes to the book.
There is no plan to choose, and I am not going to bill you again after this. You pay shipping once, and the book is yours.
Free book. You pay shipping only, charged once. No subscription, nothing to cancel.
After you buy
A one-time bundle is available that adds the audiobook, the eBook, a second physical copy to give away, and a few other pieces from my other work. It is completely optional, and the book above ships either way.
A few things people ask before they say yes
Is this actually free, or is there a catch on the back end?
The book is free. You are charged shipping only, $9.96 in the US or $19.95 outside it, and that is the complete charge on your card. I am not going to charge you again after this.
How is this better than the free chapter I already read?
The free chapter is Chapter One, delivered as a PDF to your inbox, and it stays free with no shipping involved. This is the complete, printed book, shipped to your door.
How fast will it arrive?
I would rather give you a real answer than a made-up one. We are still confirming shipping timelines on our end, so I am not going to promise a specific number of days. You will get a confirmation the moment your order goes through, and another note once your book is actually on its way.
What if I want more than one copy, or more of what this book is built on?
A one-time bundle is available that adds the audiobook, the eBook, a second physical copy to give away, and a few other pieces from my other work. It is completely optional, and the book above ships either way.
Pathological Positivity
I have spent 30 years watching the same shift, from seeing a problem to seeing the propportunity inside it, change how people handle a hard marriage, a hard kid, a hard year. The book is the most complete version of that idea I have ever written down. Cover the shipping, and it is yours.
Free book. You pay shipping only, charged once. No subscription, nothing to cancel.
Dr. Paul Jenkins
P.S. The reason I would rather you ask for the book now instead of "someday" is not a countdown. It is that the idea only does anything once you are holding it and reading it, not while it is still a tab you meant to get back to. Ask for it today, and it starts working on the problem you are chewing on right now instead of the one you will be chewing on next month.