Category: Optimism

Is Optimism Harmful or Beneficial? According to a London-based neurologist who wrote the book Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain, roughly 80% of the human population is naturally optimistic. Its just unknown to most of us. So why is that we often have a negative view on how the world has changed…

Optimism and Its Relationship with Subjective Well-Being Optimism can be viewed as an attitude or mood that is associated with an individuals expectation about the social or material future. It has been theorized and assessed in many ways, linking it to positive aspects of an individuals life such as mood, morale, health, academia and occupational…

Optimism: Main Approaches and Disadvantages Optimism can be defined as a mental attitude in which one hopes or believes that the outcome of a specific situation will be positive and desirable. If someone is optimistic, they tend to expect the best possible outcome from any situation. On the other hand, pessimism is the tendency to…

Power of Optimism: Persuasive Speech We, unfortunately, live in a world where devastating issues affect the lives of others on a daily basis. Those issues include world hunger, poverty, crime, unemployment, inequality, violence, and diseases. Some countries or areas are affected more by these issues than others. Mexico, for instance, has a poverty rate of…

Is There a Fine Line between Optimism and Reality? One question in the world is, is there a fine line between optimism and reality? There are two kinds of people when it comes to these topics. An optimistic person thinks the best possible things will happen. They are confident and view the glass as half-full.…

Reflections on Optimism and Why We Should Think More Optimistically When we hear the word optimism, we can get a sense of hope, confidence, or joy. Optimism is the hope for the future, the belief that everything will turn out favorably, it is seeing the glass as half full, not half empty. In this essay,…

Reflections on Optimism and Its Value How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. True words from Holocaust survivor, Ann Frank. Everyone at some time in their life is once told to be optimistic about something. Many of us have been told an analogy of optimism…

Importance of Staying Optimistic Whether all of the worlds problems are solved is irrelevant because the only way all of them could be solved is if humans no longer inhabited the Earth. By our very existence, we create problems for the world. We pollute oceans and air, create waste, use the Earths resources, and manipulate…