[00:02.83]030. Be an Optimist [00:13.64]If you change your mind - from pessimism to optimism - you can change your life. [00:19.81]Do you see the glass as half-full rather than half empty? [00:23.83]Do you keep your eye upon the doughnut, ot upon the hole? [00:28.30]Suddenly these cliches are scientific questions, as researchers scrutinize the power of positive thinking. [00:35.59]Research is proving that optimism can help you to be happier, healthier and more successful. [00:41.37]Pessimism leads, by contrast, to hopelessness, sickness and failure, and is linked to depression, [00:47.94]loneliness and painful shyness. If we could teach people to think more positively, [00:53.93]it would be like inoculating them against these mental ills. [00:58.83]Your habits count but the belief that you can succeed affects whether or not you will. [01:04.77]In part, that’s because optimists and pessimists deal with the same challenges and disappointments in very different ways. [01:12.35]When things go wrong the pessimist tends to blame himself. [01:15.65]“I’m not good at this.”“I always fail.”He would say. But the optimist looks for loopholes. [01:22.02]Negative or positive, it was a self-fulfilling prophecy. [01:26.14]If people feel hopeless they don’t bother to acquire the skills they need to succeed. [01:31.60]A sense of control is the litmus test for success. The optimist feels in control of his own life. [01:38.61]If things are going badly, he acts quickly, looking for solutions, forming a new plan of action, [01:44.58]and reaching out for advice. The pessimist feels like fate’s plaything and moves slowly. [01:51.20]He doesn’t seek advice, since he assumes nothing can be done. [01:55.40]Many studies suggest that the pessimist’s feeling of helplessness undermines the body’s natural defenses, [02:01.32]the immune system. Research has found that the pessimist doesn’t take good care of himself. [02:08.05]Feeling passive and unable to dodge life’s blows, he expects ill health and other misfortunes, [02:14.35]no matter what he does. He munches on junk food, avoids exercise, ignores the doctor, has another drink. [02:23.40]Most people are a mix of optimism and pessimism, but are inclined in one direction or the other. [02:30.06]It is a pattern of thinking learned at our mothers’ knees. [02:33.54]It grows out of thousands of cautions or encouragements, negative statements or positive ones. [02:40.04]Too many “don’t” and warnings of danger can make a child feel incompetent, fearful - and pessimistic. [02:47.44]Pessimism is a hard habit to break - but it can be done.

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