Most people believe that optimism and pessimism are the opposite of each other, but they're really not. They are actually two distinct ways of viewing the same situation. Optimism is often defined as “expecting the best” and is strongly correlated with happiness. Some people think optimism is just a state of mind, or that it can be learned. Others believe that optimism is a personality trait, like introversion or extroversion. And still, others think that optimism can’t be learned at...
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Conflicts can arise in a person's life at any point in life, whether personal level conflicts that exist in a person's mind or socio-economic level conflicts that exist in the external environment. Nobody is immune to conflict in their life. Conflict is defined as a struggle or a clash between opposing forces. People can deal with conflict mentally and physically. A positive mental attitude is very important in life. The term 'optimism' embraces two closely correlated concepts: the first is...
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In both ‘Never Let Me Go’ and ‘Gattaca’ they both end optimistically and which I do agree on because at the end of both texts there is something good that happens, that is optimistic. There can be a great satisfaction for the reader or viewer in a storyline that has a conclusive ending, where the hopes, dreams and relationship issues of the characters and their sense of connection to their world are resolved or understood. However, an open ending can...
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After numerous adventures around the world that Pangloss had taught him were “the best of all possible worlds,” Candide gained wisdom and reanalyzed the philosophy of optimism, that whatever happens in the world is for the best (Voltaire 2). He saw and experienced slavery, war, executions, dismemberments, torture, and many other evils during his travels. In the end, Candide discovered that it is better to improve one’s own “garden” instead of trying to make a mark on the world. Candide’s...
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Harike is an indigenous ritual in which people resort in requesting a boon from the God (Selva J. Raj, 2006). They do so by offering the God with something they have like, money, ritual activity, devotion, service, a willingness to undergo pain, in return for assistance from the God (Selva J. Raj, 2006). Harike is entering into the relationship with supernatural power, where promises or obligations are made and hopes that these promises or obligations, once taken on, will result...
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We, unfortunately, live in a world where devastating issues affect the lives of others on a daily basis. Those issues include world hunger, poverty, crime, unemployment, inequality, violence, and diseases. Some countries or areas are affected more by these issues than others. Mexico, for instance, has a poverty rate of 42% while American has one of 12.3%. Suppose that most of these major world problems were fixed, would one continue having an optimistic mindset or would that not be necessary...
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Optimism attempts to explore the concept and its relations with mental health, physical well-being, coping, quality of life and healthy lifestyle and risk perception. Optimistic behavior allows a human being to look at the world with the mirror of positivity. In this outline, hospitals are not only limited to providing treatment but also tend to give hope and faith to the people. In those cases, patients are needed to be treated with positive behavior, and this will create confidence among...
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When we hear the word optimism, we can get a sense of hope, confidence, or joy. Optimism is the hope for the future, the belief that everything will turn out favorably, it is seeing the glass as half full, not half empty. In this essay, I will talk about the reasons why we should adopt a more optimistic way of thinking, such as creating a welcoming environment for everyone, which helps us reach our full potential and helps us see...
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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world”. True words from Holocaust survivor, Ann Frank. Everyone at some time in their life is once told to be optimistic about something. Many of us have been told an analogy of optimism is to think of a glass half full instead of it being half empty which is another way of saying, you should not be pessimistic or I would like to call...
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Optimism can be defined as a mental attitude in which one hopes or believes that the outcome of a specific situation will be positive and desirable. If someone is optimistic, they tend to expect the best possible outcome from any situation. On the other hand, pessimism is the tendency to believe that the worst is going to happen in a situation or to focus on the worst aspects of things. Optimism is when the glass is seen as half full,...
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Together as a society, we are merging deeper into the twenty-first century, with many difficult challenges and accomplishments along the way. Being hopeful and optimistic about the future will result in a positive rest of the twenty-first century. There is plenty to be hopeful about when it comes to the future, seeing all the work and effort people are putting in to better our world, inspires others to join in and start a movement. As a society, we have to...
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Optimism can be viewed as an attitude or mood that is associated with an individual’s expectation about the social or material future. It has been theorized and assessed in many ways, linking it to positive aspects of an individual’s life such as mood, morale, health, academia and occupational success. There is no single optimism as it is dependent on what is desirable to the individual and is based on the evaluation and beliefs of ones given affects and emotions (Peterson,...
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One question in the world is, is there a fine line between optimism and reality? There are two kinds of people when it comes to these topics. An optimistic person thinks the best possible things will happen. They are confident and view the glass as half-full. They always look on the bright side of things. Realistic people view a situation as factual and true. They see things as they really are in a practical and sensible way. Let’s say you...
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Many young people are told to set goals for the following year, usually around the time of New Year’s Eve, or the beginning of a new school year. They are beseeched to try and reach for the sky and told that all their dreams are not impossible, but may be improbable and that they only have to work hard enough to claim for themselves the rewards of success. Moreover, they may claim that optimism is the defining factor between one...
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According to a London-based neurologist who wrote the book ‘Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain’, roughly 80% of the human population is naturally optimistic. It’s just unknown to most of us. So why is that we often have a negative view on how the world has changed over the last decades and centuries? Why we are so pessimistic about our collective future? The pessimist will argue that he or she isn't a pessimist, but a 'realist'. So...
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‘Optimism’. We’ve all heard the word, but do we know what it means? Do we know how to apply it; what to do with it? Some of us are told we have a lot of it, and we take it as a compliment, but do we really know what we are being told we are equipped with? According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word ‘optimism’ means “an inclination to put the most favorable construction upon actions and events or to...
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Whether all of the world’s problems are solved is irrelevant because the only way all of them could be solved is if humans no longer inhabited the Earth. By our very existence, we create problems for the world. We pollute oceans and air, create waste, use the Earth’s resources, and manipulate the environment for our own benefit. Therefore, problems exist because we do. It is key to stay optimistic even when you have no worries in the world because it...
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Being happy and optimistic is not a reflection of the circumstances we find ourselves in. It is a choice. It’s both the easiest and most difficult choice one could ever make. When learning for the first time how to do it, choosing to be optimistic no matter what can feel like it requires us to get knocked down and get back up, over and over again, knowing that every time we get back up, we are closer to creating the...
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Optimism is the hope and desire for the future and the belief the outcome is going to be successful. Optimism is key to success and the accomplishment of dreams. Think of someone you look up to that is successful. Think about everything that it took for them to be able to achieve their goals and dreams. Imagine if they would have been pessimistic. If they would have doubted themselves. If they had not been positive and believed in their own...
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Optimism is viewed as an emotion that shows hopefulness and confidence about the future and the successful outcome of something. Even when something doesn’t go as planned, optimists still hope and believe in the best. Seligman broke down optimism into two categories; those being permanence and pervasiveness. Permanence is defined as those who give up easily due to believing the bad outcomes that have happened to them are permanent. They continuously assume the bad things that happen will always be...
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