The key to disputing your own pessimistic thoughts is to first recognise them and then to treat them as if they were uttered by an external person, a rival whose mission in life was to make you miserable.
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Before we could answer this question, we have to answer several others. First we needed to find out if explanatory style is stable across a whole life time. If optimism while you are young is to affect your health into old age,
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This implies that the pessimist tends to go around with his eyes wide open and to assess situations more lucidly than the optimist. ” Reality may to always be a barrel of laughs, but you have to see things the way they are,” he might say, where as the optimist is a genial but incurably naive dreamer.