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Glass half-full: how I learned to be an optimist in a week
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1671" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/nov/21/glass-half-full-how-i-learned-to-be-an-optimist-in-a-week" target="_blank"><strong>Glass half-full: how I learned to be an optimist in a week - The Guardian</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>Optimists have fewer strokes, sleep better and live longer than pessimists. But how do you change your outlook? By embracing your Best Possible Self, keeping a gratitude journal – and changing your narrative </strong></p><p></p><p>I’ve been called many things in my life, but never an optimist. That was fine by me. I believed pessimists lived in a constant state of pleasant surprise: if you always expected the worst, things generally turned out better than you imagined. The only real problem with pessimism, I figured, was that too much of it could accidentally turn you into an optimist.</p><p></p><p>But accidental optimism is not one of the known dangers of pessimism, a list that does include career impairment, poor health and early death. Optimism, by contrast, is associated with better sleep and lower levels of cardiovascular disease. One <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2752100" target="_blank">study this year</a> claimed that people who describe themselves as optimists had 35% fewer strokes than those who didn’t. <a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/116/37/18357" target="_blank">Another</a>, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science last summer, found that compared with pessimists, the most optimistic subjects lived 11-15% longer lives on average.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1671, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/nov/21/glass-half-full-how-i-learned-to-be-an-optimist-in-a-week'][B]Glass half-full: how I learned to be an optimist in a week - The Guardian[/B][/URL] [B]Optimists have fewer strokes, sleep better and live longer than pessimists. But how do you change your outlook? By embracing your Best Possible Self, keeping a gratitude journal – and changing your narrative [/B] I’ve been called many things in my life, but never an optimist. That was fine by me. I believed pessimists lived in a constant state of pleasant surprise: if you always expected the worst, things generally turned out better than you imagined. The only real problem with pessimism, I figured, was that too much of it could accidentally turn you into an optimist. But accidental optimism is not one of the known dangers of pessimism, a list that does include career impairment, poor health and early death. Optimism, by contrast, is associated with better sleep and lower levels of cardiovascular disease. One [URL='https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2752100']study this year[/URL] claimed that people who describe themselves as optimists had 35% fewer strokes than those who didn’t. [URL='https://www.pnas.org/content/116/37/18357']Another[/URL], published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science last summer, found that compared with pessimists, the most optimistic subjects lived 11-15% longer lives on average. [/QUOTE]
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