In this year-long discovery of resilience, we have focused this past month on Optimism. It’s been a real eye-opener for me as well. Call me a pessimist, but I underestimated at first just how … [Read more...] about Optimism: 3 Ways to Find the Positive Path
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Disputing Pessimism
Stress affects everyone, the resilient and non-resilient alike. Being resilient does not mean that we are impervious to the stress of life; just that we have learned to process it in a way that helps … [Read more...] about Disputing Pessimism
A Message to the Suffering World
I am interrupting my regularly scheduled programming (on my year-long theme of resilience and my monthly theme on optimism) to share some exciting news. I was invited to speak on an international … [Read more...] about A Message to the Suffering World
How We Explain Stuff to Ourselves
We’ve all been exposed to enough pop psychology that we know optimism when we see it. Optimism makes us feel warm and happy inside, whereas its nemesis – pessimism – can feel a real drag. Last … [Read more...] about How We Explain Stuff to Ourselves
Ridiculous Optimism
“Light existed all along. Of course it did. Who says it didn't because I couldn't see it?” Gillian Marchenko 1 Let’s do a thought experiment. Imagine you are the photojournalist that … [Read more...] about Ridiculous Optimism
The Meaning Behind Suffering
If you follow my blog, you know that I am devoting 2019 to RESILIENCE -- our ability to recover from the stress of life. This is the last post on my topic for February: Finding Meaning. the theme … [Read more...] about The Meaning Behind Suffering