https://www.thepositivepsychologypeople.com/optimism-vs-pessimism/ Positive Psychology for Everyone Fri, 22 Dec 2017 01:46:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.thepositivepsychologypeople.com/optimism-vs-pessimism/#comment-3168 Fri, 22 Dec 2017 01:46:16 +0000 http://thepositivepsychologypeople.com/?p=1459#comment-3168 Pretty much proving that neither truly exists or are to be taken with a grain of salt.
“Hope for the best and plan for the worst”. Which of those two actually require action and can change an outcome of the other? Would you prefer to plan to hope or hope to plan?
“Live in the now, don’t continuously revisit negatives that hold no meaning at the present time”. Wrong! What you live now is instantly your past Living only in the now is contradicted by
“Be OK with failure- what can I learn from this”. You lean nothing if the past has no meaning. Being OK with failure is not asking for effort to succeed and learning from failure is living in the past where the outcome of your future is located but by no means a promise of success regardless of what you learned.
When someone fails others say “keep trying”. Why? They tried and failed do not insist they keep failing. “Keep trying” is advice from the clueless so try something else. If others knew how and why you failed they would tell you. Try what you are prepared for and know something about. Choose only battles you know you will win. When you are up against skill luck does not have much of chance. If you insist to rely on luck then be content you will probably make skill a happy victor. That is optimism. Pessimism is admitting probable defeat, not battling and saving yourself and your valuable time.

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