Mandatory Cheerfulness?

In her article “Introduction, from Bright-Sided,” Barbara Ehrenreich claims that cultivating a positive outlook in our culture has moved from being a personal choice about attitude to becoming a mandatory expectation – a social script, the author argues, that we are given little choice but to follow.
In a two-paragraph response, offer your own assessments of the following:
-Do you think that our culture puts too much (or false) emphases on being positive and cheerful, especially in the workplace?
-Do you believe that these expectations have become mandatory, like a “script” that we are required to perform in different settings? What are these settings and scripts in your own experience??