Sunstone
13-07-2003, 08:44 PM
Dear guys,
Sometimes it's always important to recharge your batteries on the IP journey and make sure your attitude is carrying you forward in the right direction.
Are you an optimist?
Cheers,
Sunstone.
http://www.askmen.com/fashion/body_and_mind/22_better_living.html
Optimism Quotes
· "I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
- Charlotte Bronte
· "Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
- Chinese Proverb
· "Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
· "How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied."
- Herodotus
· "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do."
- Helen Keller
· "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- Nelson Mandela
· "No one can make you feel inferior without your permission"
- Eleanor Roosevelt
· "It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts."
- Robert Schuller
· "Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost."
- Robert H. Schuller
· "Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other."
- Brian Tracy
· "A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."
- Harry Truman
· "Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great, make you feel that you too can become great."
- Mark Twain
· "A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."
- Unknown
http://sparkpeople.com/start/quotes_optimism.html
'Optimists are more resistant to infectious illness and are better at fending off chronic diseases of middle age'
Optimists are more resistant to infectious illness and are better at fending off chronic diseases of middle age. In one study, we looked at 96 men who had their first heart attack in 1980. Within eight years, 15 of the 16 most pessimistic men died of a second heart attack, but only five of the 16 most optimistic men died.
Good therapy for depression may entail bolstering a set of benign illusions. Depressed people may need to adopt the same self-serving illusions that most normal people hold. We can choose how we think. Styles of thinking can become habits. We can control our thoughts as we can our muscles.
'My goal would be to get that person to speak to him- or herself more kindly, the way a loving friend might'
Specifically, if something goes wrong, pessimists tend to have hopeless thoughts. They tell themselves, 'I'll never get it right,' or 'I always screw up,' or worse, they stamp themselves with a negative label - 'I'm a jerk.' My goal would be to get that person to speak to him- or herself more kindly, the way a loving friend might. The person might learn to say, 'Things didn't go well today, but I learned a lot from the experience, and I'll do better tomorrow.' Instead of negative labels like 'jerk', the pessimist would learn to say, 'Sometimes I'm not as considerate as I'd like to be, but overall, I'm a kind person.'
'My recommendation is to do something pleasurable that will distract you from your troubles'
My other advice for overcoming pessimism is not to ruminate about bad events that happen to you, at least not immediately afterwards. If your boss fires you or you fail an important exam, my recommendation is to do something pleasurable that will distract you from your troubles. I recommend fun distractions because studies show, if you think about problems in a negative frame of mind, you come up with fewer solutions. And you're likely to spiral into deeper depression. By boosting mood and self-esteem, people with pessimistic tendencies can break that cycle and free themselves to think more creatively.It takes most people a few weeks to get the knack, but once the technique is learned, the less likely they are to relapse. That's well documented.
A 'pathologically optimistic' genius
'Mozart was almost pathologically optimistic'
A psychological analysis of Mozart's correspondence shows that he was almost pathologically optimistic, with an exuberant self-confidence. Optimistic people who suffer setbacks tend to attribute them to external causes that are temporary and can be changed. Writing in The Psychologist, Professor Andrew Steptoe of St George's Hospital Medical School says that towards the end of Mozart's short life, when he suffered the deaths of four children, serious illnesses and repeated professional and financial disasters, his optimism actually rose.
http://www.globalideasbank.org/1993/1993-38.HTML
"The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole."
Anonymous
Sometimes it's always important to recharge your batteries on the IP journey and make sure your attitude is carrying you forward in the right direction.
Are you an optimist?
Cheers,
Sunstone.
http://www.askmen.com/fashion/body_and_mind/22_better_living.html
Optimism Quotes
· "I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
- Charlotte Bronte
· "Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
- Chinese Proverb
· "Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
· "How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied."
- Herodotus
· "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do."
- Helen Keller
· "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- Nelson Mandela
· "No one can make you feel inferior without your permission"
- Eleanor Roosevelt
· "It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts."
- Robert Schuller
· "Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost."
- Robert H. Schuller
· "Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other."
- Brian Tracy
· "A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."
- Harry Truman
· "Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great, make you feel that you too can become great."
- Mark Twain
· "A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."
- Unknown
http://sparkpeople.com/start/quotes_optimism.html
'Optimists are more resistant to infectious illness and are better at fending off chronic diseases of middle age'
Optimists are more resistant to infectious illness and are better at fending off chronic diseases of middle age. In one study, we looked at 96 men who had their first heart attack in 1980. Within eight years, 15 of the 16 most pessimistic men died of a second heart attack, but only five of the 16 most optimistic men died.
Good therapy for depression may entail bolstering a set of benign illusions. Depressed people may need to adopt the same self-serving illusions that most normal people hold. We can choose how we think. Styles of thinking can become habits. We can control our thoughts as we can our muscles.
'My goal would be to get that person to speak to him- or herself more kindly, the way a loving friend might'
Specifically, if something goes wrong, pessimists tend to have hopeless thoughts. They tell themselves, 'I'll never get it right,' or 'I always screw up,' or worse, they stamp themselves with a negative label - 'I'm a jerk.' My goal would be to get that person to speak to him- or herself more kindly, the way a loving friend might. The person might learn to say, 'Things didn't go well today, but I learned a lot from the experience, and I'll do better tomorrow.' Instead of negative labels like 'jerk', the pessimist would learn to say, 'Sometimes I'm not as considerate as I'd like to be, but overall, I'm a kind person.'
'My recommendation is to do something pleasurable that will distract you from your troubles'
My other advice for overcoming pessimism is not to ruminate about bad events that happen to you, at least not immediately afterwards. If your boss fires you or you fail an important exam, my recommendation is to do something pleasurable that will distract you from your troubles. I recommend fun distractions because studies show, if you think about problems in a negative frame of mind, you come up with fewer solutions. And you're likely to spiral into deeper depression. By boosting mood and self-esteem, people with pessimistic tendencies can break that cycle and free themselves to think more creatively.It takes most people a few weeks to get the knack, but once the technique is learned, the less likely they are to relapse. That's well documented.
A 'pathologically optimistic' genius
'Mozart was almost pathologically optimistic'
A psychological analysis of Mozart's correspondence shows that he was almost pathologically optimistic, with an exuberant self-confidence. Optimistic people who suffer setbacks tend to attribute them to external causes that are temporary and can be changed. Writing in The Psychologist, Professor Andrew Steptoe of St George's Hospital Medical School says that towards the end of Mozart's short life, when he suffered the deaths of four children, serious illnesses and repeated professional and financial disasters, his optimism actually rose.
http://www.globalideasbank.org/1993/1993-38.HTML
"The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole."
Anonymous