THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OPTIMISTIC AND PESSIMISTIC PEOPLE
- Not only is being physically healthy essential, but being ________________ is also of great importance.
- In order to become truly optimistic, a person must learn to ________________ in many specific ways.
- A setback [1]is seen as ________________ by an optimist, whereas a pessimist sees it as ________________.
- An optimist sees a negative event as something that is ________________ in time and that will have no ________________ on the future.
- The pessimist blames negative impacts on ________________.
- Pessimists will think they are not
- good enough,
- popular,
- successful
- Pessimists become depressed and obsessed by ________________.
- Optimists look at what may go wrong as ________________ events, which will have no other connection with their lives.
- Pessimists see ________________ as pervasive[2].
- Pessimists interpret events as ________________.
- An optimist thinks that unfortunate events are just setbacks over which they have ________________.
- If a pessimist is cut off in traffic, they will think the other drivers are ________________ acting to cut them off.
- Being fully mature means you have the ability to be ________________ and ________________ when caught up in the inevitable storms of normal life.
- 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
- MENTALLY HEALTHY / MENTALLY FIT
- CONTROL HIS OR HER (THEIR) THINKING
- TEMPORARY – PERMANENT
- LIMITED – IMPACT
- DESTINY / LIFE AND DESTINY
- COMPETENT – LIKEABLE
- SELF-PITY
- ISOLATED / UNFORTUNATE / DISCONNECTED
- DISAPPOINTMENTS
- PERSONAL
- LITTLE CONTROL
- DELIBERATELY
- OBJECTIVE – UNEMOTIONAL
- REALISTICALLY – EMOTIONALLY
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