Summary: Danial Goleman is a professor of psychology at Harvard University. This reading comes from his book Emotional Intelligence: Why it can Matter More Then IQ in 1995. Emotional intelligence, according to Goleman, means our ability to respond emotionally in appropriate, productive ways to life’s challenges.
Response: Writer Daniel Goleman defines optimism in terms as one American who follow swimming had high hopes for Matt Biondi, a member of the U.S Olympic Team in 1988. Some sportswriter was pushing Biondi as likely to match Mark Spitz’s 1972 feet of taking seven gold medals. The terms optimism is how peoples explain to themselves their successes and failure. People who are optimism see a failure as
due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, when pessimist take the blame for failure. Optimism, like hope, meanings having a strong expectation that, in the general, things will turn out all right in life, despite many setbacks and frustration. From the standpoint of emotional intelligence, optimism is an attitude that shines people against failing into apathy, hopelessness, or depression in the face of tough. Optimism pays dividends in life providing the new hopes for life. For me the Hope and Optimism are more alike, the hope in face of difficulties and waiting of the days that might come be little difficult, but still hoping and working for the better future. With the hope and optimism the attitude of people will change and people who have sense of self-efficacy bounce back to failures; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong.