On the other hand, if your explanatory style is optimistic, your depression will be halted.

The typical cures of drugs and electroconvulsive therapy (“shock treatment”) are quick and moderately effective. Some other times, it might feel as if he was (unwittingly) devaluing others.

And, for most people, depression is not a matter of genes, but a consequence of thought patterns. It also can be a powerful lens-changing leadership tool. There is considerable evidence that depressed people, though sadder, are wiser.

", who knew a book could help change your answer?

Replace contagious and catastrophizing self-talk words such as “everything” and “nothing” with quarantining self-talk that stresses “this thing”. Wir nutzen es, um unsere Produktseiten zu verbessern. Haben Sie alle relevanten Informationen erhalten? Through a series of studies of insurance salespeople at Metropolitan Life, Seligman found out that that the people who performed best were the optimists. Learned optimism is not just an internal set of principles and self-talk techniques to help better explain bad events in our own lives. (…)Overall, then, there is clear evidence that nondepressed people distort reality in a self-serving direction and depressed people tend to see reality accurately. And some in which you have 100% control. (first hint: they are not facts, just your own, often too negative interpretation). Subscribe to the Employee & Family Readiness Blog, As supervisors, we can reframe “Sorry boss, I always screw up this computer application” with encouragement and positive expectation – “You just haven’t figured out this application yet.

Preisangaben inkl. In other words, how contagious do we allow bad events to be?

But as we will see later, one can embrace optimism without sacrificing true growth and development.

It’s the pessimistic ones that are in trouble. Rumination, or mulling over bad events, is an enabler for depression. optimists see loss and rejection as temporary; pessimists see them as permanent, optimists see loss and rejection as specific; pessimists see them as universal and as big general rejection to their whole work or personality, optimists see loss and rejection as a consequence of the circumstances; pessimists take the blame on. und ggf. Remember that the ultimate state of pessimism is one where you don’t believe any of your actions matter? Rather, learned optimism is acknowledging our struggles and explaining them in ways that boost self-control and promote self-change. Changing both helps the most. A failure or a defeat can teach you that you are now helpless, but learned helplessness will produce only momentary symptoms of depression—unless you have a pessimistic explanatory style. It might be. Learned Optimism is a positive psychology book.

From the quick description above, you can already see that too much optimism, or what Seligman calls “blind optimism”, can be a drag to true growth.If you always refuse to take the blame, you will never fix your mistakes and you will never grow.

(…)These have been the consistent findings over the last decade. Can there be such a thing as “too much optimism”? It matters because, says Seligman, a failure makes everyone at least momentarily helpless. Freud’s speculations were built on very little observation and a very free use of imagination. It’s a normal human need to be recognized for one’s own work.Some scientists hide it better than others, while others are more open about self-promotion. For instance, a supervisor fails to help a challenging employee resulting in that employee’s termination. Hudiciously employed, mild pessimism has its uses. The word “can’t” is also limiting because it makes struggle seem unchangeable and permanent. Many things in life are beyond our control (…) But there is a vast, unclaimed territory of actions over which we can take control—or cede control to others or to fate. This is a form of social climbing which I call “social climbing in absentia“.

Absolutely recommended. So, which one is which?I personally feel like pessimists are more realistic, but probably not as much as the evidence showed when “Learned Optimism” was written. And he describes their “counterattack plans”: That is where things stood in 1965 when we prepared our counterattack against the behaviorists. Learned Optimism is a positive psychology book.Martin Seligman, the author, explains the difference between optimists and pessimists is in thought patterns, and he teaches how we can become more optimists or, when the situation demands it, how we can strategically think more like pessimists.

Learned Optimism sets out on a quest to change a fundamental aspect of human personality. People who default to a pessimistic explanatory style see themselves as the sole reasons bad things happen. It takes me …

In sum, it’s great to become an optimist, but it’s best of all to be able to choose when to be an optimist and when to be a pessimist. Does a speeding ticket on the way home result in a “ruined night” of arguing with the spouse, punishing the kids, kicking the dog, and blaming it all on the ticket? Jetzt entdecken.

I later read Seligman’s “The Circuit of Hope“, which is basically Seligman’s autobiography. “Learned Optimism” is a monument to not only Positive Psychology but to psychology in general.But it could have been better edited, briefer, and avoided many repetitions. When an event happens, it can be seen as neutral. Many things in life are beyond our control (…) But there is a vast, unclaimed territory of actions over which we can take control—or cede control to others or to fate.The way we think about this realm of life can actually diminish or enlarge the control we have over it. “Learned Optimism” is a wonderful text for students of psychology as it also provides an overview of the history of psychology. I’ve preferred the humanistic tradition. Here were two callow graduate students telling the great B. F. Skinner, guru of behaviorism, and all his disciples that they were wrong in their most basic premise. There is considerable evidence that depressed people, though sadder, are wiser.

A failure or a defeat can teach you that you are now helpless, but learned helplessness will produce only momentary symptoms of depression—unless you have a pessimistic explanatory style. While we have all been asked the question, "Is the glass half empty or half full? Surprisingly, most of his patients got better. Well, when you have that type of mindset, you feel powerless.On the other hand, when you optimistically think that your actions do matter, you feel more in power. Optimism Is The Key Ingredient for Tenacity. By looking at, the causes, you get both a more realistic picture, and a less pessimistic one.