Optimism

Question 1

Which statement best defines optimism?

Answer 1

The ability to accept the full spectrum of inner experience and choose the perspective that maximizes well-being.

Question 2

Very small Optimism

Answer 2

just the feeling you’ll make it through the day, that all will turn out in the end

Question 3

Little Optimism

Answer 3

optimism on small things, helps people behave constructively and healthily in specific situations

Question 4

Big Optimism

Answer 4

optimism on very large and general things; makes you feel invigorated, resilient, strong, and energetic

Question 5

How to practice optimism

Answer 5

• Relabel, reframe, refocus, revalue
• ABC model and ACT

Question 6

Negativity bias

Answer 6

• the mind is a “don’t-get-killed machine”
• safer to have a negative mindset
• built into all humans

Question 7

Optimism Strategies

Answer 7

• ACT therapy and defusion
• Does this thought serve you?
• Cognitive Behavioral Approaches

Question 8

The brain is like ____ for negative experiences but _____ for positive ones

Answer 8

Velcro, Teflon

Question 9

What role does the right brain play in optimism?

Answer 9

some of us have the extra challenge of an overprotective helicopter parent–Mother Nature–in the form of a right brain incessantly calling out needless warnings.

Question 10

Learned helplessness

Answer 10

• there are life experiences that have molded how we see the world.
• Uncontrollable situations that create feelings of helplessness.
• believing you’re powerless, you shy away from opportunities to change and dream smaller dreams, which strengthens your feeling of powerlessness.

Question 11

Learned Optimism

Answer 11

1. Permanence (bad events are temporary)
2. Pervasiveness (troubles separate from their lives)
3. Personalization (realize which experiences are due to outside circumstances)