R U Positive? Pros and Cons of being an optimist...lets see what we get?
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Being an optimist is great.  The world is a much better place, you arent miserable because the world sucks AND people like to hang around you because you're not depressive...\n\nThe two cons i can think of is that you're a prime target for scams, and you get much more disappointed when something does go bad because you had higher hopes.
626411
!~ i'm happy coz i'm a happy person ~! (^_^) yay!!! life is good ~!
431033
positive....as difficult as my life was, I always enjoyed my children, my home, and the daily routine of life.  If you are a Christian you'll understand when I say I've been through the fire and came out stronger.....a positive attitude is key.....I made gratitude lists, I prayed and I believed in a power greater than myself.....and I laughed and stayed in touch with the people I love....and I made it!
64911
I am happy. Being happy or not is a choice. You can see the positive in everything if you want to.
173168
I´ve been told I´m a pessimist, but I like to think of myself more as an exhibistionist. Thanks for asking.
589174
go with what u got , u are gorgous, ancentuate the positive as  u have described sounds wonderful
787389
I must say, I'm pretty content with life. I don't really want/need anything... Could I save the wish for a bad day, maybe? haha. I don't think I'd wish for anything, honestly. Obstacles, not knowing everything, not being perfect - It just makes life all the more interesting. I'd give my wish to someone who actually needed it. :)
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NO...It's a delicious cycle!!!...It all depends on how you react to it,Darling!!!.......Phantom of Optimism
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Good positive attitude. People notice how you react to things every day and make their decisions based on what they see. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
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Truthfulness is telling the truth.\n\nOptimism, the opposite of pessimism, exemplifies a lifeview where one looks upon the world as a positive place. Optimists generally believe that people and events are inherently good. They have a so-called "positive" outlook on life, believing that things will work out in the end. A common conundrum illustrates optimism versus pessimism with the question, does one regard a given glass of water as half full or as half empty? Conventional wisdom expects optimists to reply with half full and pessimists to respond with half empty.\n\nPhilosophers often link the concept of optimism with the name of Gottfried Leibniz, who held that we live in the "best of all possible worlds," a theodicy which Voltaire famously mocked in his satirical novel Candide. The philosophical pessimism of, for instance, Arthur Schopenhauer, provides an opposite pole to philosophical optimism.\n\nThe anarchist philosopher William Godwin demonstrated perhaps even more optimism than Leibniz. He hoped that society would eventually reach the state where calm reason would replace all violence and force, that mind could eventually make matter subservient to it, and that intelligence could discover the secret of immortality. (Some express surprise to learn that a freedom-loving anarchist like William Godwin disapproved of suicide, but his disapproval came from his optimistic view of suicide as almost always a mistake.)\n\nOveroptimism, or strong optimism, is the overarching mental state wherein people believe that things will more likely go well for them than go badly. Compare this with the valence effect of prediction, a tendency for people to overestimate the likelihood of good things happening rather than bad things.\n\nPersonal optimism correlates strongly with self-esteem, with psychological well-being and with personal health. Martin Seligman, in researching this area, criticises academics for focusing too much on causes for pessimism and not enough on optimism. He points out that in the last three decades of the 20th century journals published 46,000 psychological papers on depression and only 400 on joy.\n\nIdeologically convinced optimists may defend failures in their hoped-for outcomes by discussing "misplaced optimism" rather than abandoning optimism altogether.\n\nA number of scholars have suggested that, although optimism and pessimism might seem like opposites, in psychological terms they do not function in this way. Having more of one does not mean you have less of the other. The factors that reduce one do not necessarily increase the other. On many occasions in life we need both in equal supply. Antonio Gramsci famously called for "pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will": the one the spur to action, the other the resilience to believe that such action will result in meaningful change even in the face of adversity.\n\nHope can become a force for social change when it combines optimism and pessimism in healthy proportions. John Braithwaite, an academic at the Australian National University, suggests that in modern society we undervalue hope because we wrongly think of it as a choice between hopefulness and naivity as opposed to scepticism and realism.
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I try to stay positive by being optimistic.  I have a way of looking at other things in different ways.  Of course your idea still may be the correct one but "listening only" to others opinions sorta helps you to be positive because it helps you to look at things from other peoples point of view.  Then you have to constantly smile, even when things get you upset, and just know that it happend for a reason being the good and the bad!
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Well i am happy, and not because some material things make me feel like i do exist or something. My happines comes from within. I understand my limitations, and with that in hand i know that my achievments through life are the reflection of someone who always gives the best of himself.\n\nknowing i do my best everyday makes me happy. What makes you happy?\n\nfind some indicator for evaluating your life. might be how many friends do you have, or how many people have you helped... or how many material things you have! The important thing is that everyone can measure their own happines by setting reasonable indicators. What are yours? what's your happines based on?
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I will usually play devil's advocate if I see someone being blindly optimistic, even if I actually happen to agree with the point of view.\nI don't consider it a NEED to be negative but, a need to be objective.\nBlind optimism is just as bad as blind pessimism, and I'll argue a point either way if I feel the proposed idea isn't thouroughly represented in both the pro and the con.
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You are an illogical pessimist aren't you?
379249
Not really, I mean why be so negative all the time? sieze the day!
900124
Do you believe that there's actually a positive difference?
664149
Ok, my day will be just a little brighter knowing that.\n\n:)