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    Positive Attitude

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    Positive attitude helps to cope more easily with the daily affairs of life. It brings optimism into your life‚ and makes it easier to avoid worry and negative thinking. If you adopt it as a way of life‚ it will bring constructive changes into your life‚ and makes them happier‚ brighter and more successful. With a positive attitude you see the bright side of life‚ become optimistic and expect the best to happen. It is certainly a state of mind that is well worth developing and strengthening. Positive

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    handling the stress. Even though it may be considered as unreasonable‚ according to scientists optimists actually experience better circumstances‚ in part‚ because their way of thinking helps to create better circumstances in their lives. The habit of optimism and positive thinking can bring better relationships at school. To be precise‚ optimist people are not liable to see the side effects of a situation at first so that it will be easier for them to make friends. They do not have prejudices generally

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    belief that good things will happen and that one’s efforts will be crowned with success. It is something diametrically opposed to negative thinking which is being fearful‚ apprehensive and unsure of success in efforts. Positive thinking is based on optimism‚ hope and belief that hard work is never wasted. The effects of positive thinking are magical. Psychologists believe that nothing gears up people to make whole-hearted efforts to perform some task as positive thinking. The feeling tones up every

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    Causes of happiness

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    40 grams of dark chocolate every day for two weeks can reduce the stress. In other words‚ the levels of stress hormones will be reduced which can make you feel happy.  The third cause of happiness is being optimistic. Optimism is one of the reasons that lead to happiness. Optimism is a hopefulness and confidence that things will work out. Also‚ it can help us to move from the past and not fear the future. If you are a pessimist‚ you are going to think that things will not work out. As a result‚ the

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    Why optimists are less vulnerable to disease? How might optimism work to make people less vulnerable and pessimism to make people more vulnerable to cardiovascular disease? The possibilities divide into three large categories:   1. Optimists take action and have healthier lifestyles. Optimists believe that their actions matter‚ whereas pessimists believe they are helpless and nothing they do will matter. Optimists try‚ while pessimists lapse into passive helplessness. Optimists therefore act

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    competition with other fisherman ‚ locating something in the wrong place ‚ and the storm that may come unexpected are some of the things that keep the fisherman from catching the big fish in the sea The overall message of the poetry conveys a sense of optimism . However just like in other good poems ‚ the lines are able to communicate their own emotions . More importantly ‚ their thoughts add up to transcend the writing into a poetry that speaks of life and the everyday journey of each person The poem

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    means to not shift blame on others which will give the feeling of being a powerful person who has many choices instead of feeling as a weak person with no choices. * To keep the change as on ongoing process‚ negativity has to be turned into optimism in order to overcome fear and make the best of every situation. More to add‚ when recognizing all the choices in every situation‚ this will help to keep the negativity from returning and to stay on the path for self-growth while

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    individuals overestimate the expected future sales and employment. To explain variations in overoptimism‚ I posit that those individuals who adopt an inside view to forecasting through the use of plans and financial projections‚ will exhibit greater ex ante bias in their expectations. Consistent with the inside view causing overoptimism in expectations‚ I find that the preparation of projected financial statements results in more overly optimistic venture sale forecasts. Copyright  2010 John Wiley & Sons‚ Ltd

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    Candide - Optimism

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    Leibniz’s theory of optimism and the hardships brought on by the inaction toward the evils of the world. Voltaire’s use of satire‚ and its techniques of exaggeration and contrast highlight the evil and brutality of war and the world in general when men are meekly accepting their fate. Leibniz‚ a German philosopher and mathematician of Voltaire’s time‚ developed the idea that the world they were living in at that time was "the best of all possible worlds." This systematic optimism shown by Leibniz is

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    Olivia bagnall “ The general vision and viewpoint of texts can be quite similar or very different “ In the light of the above statement compare the general vision and viewpoint in at least two texts of your comparative course ( 70 marks ) The general vision and viewpoints of the three texts I have studied show many similiarities and differences throughout. While I feel that the three texts How Many Miles To Babylon ‚ Casablanca and Oedipus Rex are primarily pessimistic texts there are

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