THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OPTIMISTIC AND PESSIMISTIC PEOPLE – Video Activity

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OPTIMISTIC AND PESSIMISTIC PEOPLE

 

1. Not only is being physically healthy essential, but being ________________ is also of great importance.
2. In order to become truly optimistic, a person must learn to ________________ in many specific ways.
3. A setback [1]is seen as ________________ by an optimist, whereas a pessimist sees it as ________________.
4. An optimist sees a negative event as something that is ________________ in time and that will have no ________________ on the future.
5. The pessimist blames negative impacts on ________________.
6. Pessimists will think they are not

• good enough,
• popular,
• successful

7. Pessimists become depressed and obsessed by ________________.
8. Optimists look at what may go wrong as ________________ events, which will have no other connection with their lives.
9. Pessimists see ________________ as pervasive[2].
10. Pessimists interpret events as ________________.
11. An optimist thinks that unfortunate events are just setbacks over which they have ________________.
12. If a pessimist is cut off in traffic, they will think the other drivers are ________________ acting to cut them off.
13. Being fully mature means you have the ability to be ________________ and ________________ when caught up in the inevitable storms of normal life.
14. A mature personality is capable of interpreting events more ________________ and less ________________.

[1] Setback: a stopping or delay in one’s progress; reverse or defeat. Revés.
[2] Pervasive: existing in every part of something : spreading to all parts of something.  Generalizado.

 

 

KEY

 

1. MENTALLY HEALTHY / MENTALLY FIT
2. CONTROL HIS OR HER (THEIR) THINKING
3. TEMPORARY – PERMANENT
4. LIMITED – IMPACT
5. DESTINY / LIFE AND DESTINY
6. COMPETENT – LIKEABLE
7. SELF-PITY
8. ISOLATED / UNFORTUNATE / DISCONNECTED
9. DISAPPOINTMENTS
10. PERSONAL
11. LITTLE CONTROL
12. DELIBERATELY
13. OBJECTIVE – UNEMOTIONAL
14. REALISTICALLY – EMOTIONALLY

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