Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Explanatory styles

Pessimists tend to look at negative events as
  • permanent
  • universal 
  • internal
Optimists tend to look at negative events as
  • temporary
  • specific
  • external

       From Learned Optimism, by Martin Seligman

 

 

 

 

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