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Practicing Optimism

Presenter:

Psych2go

Time:

3:19

Summary

How do you create new perspectives? The emotional intelligence competency of exercising optimism can help in challenging times. When we're in the midst of challenges, it can feel like an impossible burden.

Transcript

How's your optimism doing with Coronavirus? I think a lot of people are confused about the meaning of optimism, and they think it's just sticking a smile on it and pretending everything's fine. But at six seconds, we use the term exercise optimism because it's work, it's effort, and it's when we're struggling that we most need to do that work.


It's when we're struggling that we look around and we say, it's time for me to cross over this river and see that. On this side where I don't see possibilities, but somewhere ahead of me there, there's another perspective.

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