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From CrushPessimism.com
IT’S AN AGE-OLD BATTLE. Pessimists think optimists are foolish, optimists think pessimists make themselves unnecessarily miserable. A lot of research has been done on this issue in the last 30 years. Have we answered the question yet? Is the glass half-full or half-empty? Martin Seligman and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania found that optimistic people are happier than pessimists. When something bad happens, optimists think of it as temporary, limited in its effect, and not entirely their fault.
Pessimists do the opposite. They consider the setback to be permanent, far-reaching and all their fault. There are varying degrees of this, of course; it’s not black or white. Most people fall somewhere between the two extremes.
The main difference between optimists and pessimists is how they explain setbacks to themselves.
Using these definitions, researchers find that optimism contributes to good health and pessimism contributes to illness.
