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	Learned Optimism

wildcat

12-22-2007 11:26 AM

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wildcat says:

quick non scientific poll, are you an optimist?

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12-22-2007 12:07 PM

ljsdesign

Hope for the best , plan for the worst. Which catagory would I be in?

12-22-2007 1:02 PM

sunshinebirds

it is said that hope is the beginning

12-22-2007 11:19 PM

Deepti

There's a saying that the best thing about being a pessimist is that you're either always right or are pleasantly surprised.....

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personal power</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.shearonforschools.com/learned_optimism.htm"><LI class="MsoNormal">Bad
    events are temporary setbacks</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.shearonforschools.com/learned_optimism.htm"><LI class="MsoNormal">Isolated
    to particular circumstances</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.shearonforschools.com/learned_optimism.htm"><LI class="MsoNormal">Can
    be overcome by my effort and abilities</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.shearonforschools.com/learned_optimism.htm"><P class="MsoNormal">Pessimism -<SPAN>  </SPAN>reacting
to setbacks from a presumption of personal helplessness:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.shearonforschools.com/learned_optimism.htm"><LI class="MsoNormal">Bad
    events will last a long time</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.shearonforschools.com/learned_optimism.htm"><LI class="MsoNormal">Will
    undermine everything I do</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.shearonforschools.com/learned_optimism.htm"><LI class="MsoNormal">Are
    my fault</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.shearonforschools.com/learned_optimism.htm"><P class="MsoNormal">Optimism psychology is in the field of cognitive science.<SPAN> 
</SPAN>It is not magic.<SPAN>  </SPAN>But, the
event-explanations of optimism can be practiced and learned, even by those who
have not consistently used them previously.<SPAN> </SPAN><O:P _moz-userdefined="">
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</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.shearonforschools.com/learned_optimism.htm"><P class="MsoNormal">Optimism:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.shearonforschools.com/learned_optimism.htm"><LI class="MsoNormal">Inoculates
    against depression</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.shearonforschools.com/learned_optimism.htm"><LI class="MsoNormal">Improves
    health</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.shearonforschools.com/learned_optimism.htm"><LI class="MsoNormal">Combines
    with talent and desire to enable achievement</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.shearonforschools.com/learned_optimism.htm">Women suffer from depression more than men by a ratio of
two to one, even though, as children, boys are
more pessimistic than girls and more depressed.<SPAN> 
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how they feel ("ruminating") may account for this sex difference in
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