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PNTV: Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman (#8)

You Are Heroic with Brian Johnson

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The Three Peas to Our Explanatory Style

There are three peas to our explanatory style. Whether we think something is permanent, whether it is pervasive, and whether we think it's personal. The optimist thinks that that good is probably going to be permanent. Now on the negative event, they do the opposite. This isn't just my job, this is every aspect of my life,. I'm totally at bland. There's nothing outside of me that could have contributed. So those are the differences between pessimist and optimist with explanatory styles. If something's going right, how are you looking at it as an optimist or a pessimist? And the exciting thing is we can learn to change how we approach these things.

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