If you include the first category, you may include personnel of the lucky ones. Research after research has been done to show: a personal look at the world around him with a sense of optimism proved able to produce a much better performance than peers who often dirudung by pessimism. This fact is found in both the working world, sports world, and also in school.
That bit of the facts revealed in a book titled lure: Learned Optimism - How to Change Your Mind and Your Life. This book was written by Martin Seligman, a leading professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
(Martin Seligman is very well known as the father of positive psychology, a psychology are keen to promote the flow of the application of psychology for the growth-minded beings that positive, optimistic and embracing the true happiness. Before the presence of Seligman, psychology merely talking about the murky world: about depression , of neurosis, mental disorders and the like. Prior to Seligman, psychology tends to depart from the premise that man's "soul sickness" and the science of psychology exists to heal. a la Seligman Positive Psychology depart from the premise that human beings are "basically happy" and the present psychology merely to reinforce the positive feelings).
In this book, Seligman describes various research results on the positive impact of optimism for the performance. In one example of his research, Seligman discovered the sales force (salesmen) who have a mental optimistic able to book sales that far more pessimistic than his colleagues with character. Departure from these findings, Seligman was then asked by one of his clients to create a tool to filter the selection test which sales candidates with character and deserves optimistic, pessimistic and which character and should reject.
The results are truly astounding. Performance of the salesman who accepted it's really impressive, and the performance of the company's overall sales increased many times over. Only in two years, the company bounced back into the market authorities (therefore, if the company office or you want to improve business performance, this book is worth buying ... .. inside described how the shape of the selection test it).
The first type of explanation is: permanence. A pessimist always explain bad events that befall them as something that tends to permanent (ie: my boss is always blaming me, or I never managed to become an entrepreneur, or I could never have passed the assessment test; ff.). The phrase "always" or "never" is something permanent, and pessimists tend to prefer using the phrase (either openly or in the liver).
Conversely those optimists will view bad (bad events) that may befall them as something that is temporary (eg, today my boss again bad mood, or my boss angry if I was late completing the report; or I do not succeed in business because of selecting locations store, etc.). Examples of a temporary sentence of this kind can make people see bad events as something that is temporary - not permanent - and can be avoided in the future.
The second type of explanation is: pervasiveness. People tend to give pessimistic explanations generalize (pervasive) of bad events that surround them (eg: all the bosses here to play office politics, or any regulations in this company is not fair; all motivational book that there was only a waste, and a variety of sentences like ). A pervasive means we generalize about something event or occurrence.
Conversely, human beings are optimistic will provide specific explanations pitched (not pervasive and generalization), such as: Bos on the financial part was doing office politics; no regulation in that overtime pay is not fair; or motivational books I was reading it right now not good. Explanations that are specific - and not a generalization - enables us to see that it really is not all dimensions in an incident / adverse event. There must be a positive gap behind the various other dimensions.
Overall the book Learned Optimism is very interesting and contains lots of practical guidance to make our minds become more optimistic, and looking at the world around us with a positive perspective.
Like the title of his book, Seligman's work this would probably really "change your mind and your life."
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