Half-full or Half-empty? How many of us grew up believing in Peter Pan philosophies that thinking happy thoughts would make everything better? Or at “every clouds has a silver lining”‚ “the glass is always half-full?” and that no matter how awful life is has been “there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.” Otherwise‚ you were at varied enormous principle‚ raised on the belief that by thinking the worst of everything and everyone‚ you’d be better prepared for disappointment… Psychologists
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Is Your Glass Half Full or Half Empty? Is Your Glass Half Full or Half Empty? Shakespeare quotes “there is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so.” These are words of wisdom‚ as Shakespeare had discovered centuries ago that are still relative to the daily events that occur for the average twenty-first century adult. People often waste too much time thinking about small negative aspects of their day which creates added stress that is not necessary. Like over analyzing every detail of
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Neither Half Full nor Half Empty “Get off of me! Get off of me!” he yelled as he was being backed into the corner of the kitchen. Johnny was getting the shit kicked out of him but what was he supposed to do? Hit his own mother? After enough blood dripped down his face he had to do what he had to do. Johnny never thought of hitting his mother before but with a quick move he picked up in wrestling practice a few seasons ago he quickly ducked under his moms swinging arms and around her back to get
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the other hand‚ the others feel that an event is just one of string of bad events affecting their lives. When you are looking at a glass that is filled exactly halfway with liquid‚ is the glass half full or half empty to you? People who see an event which is much worse than it is and say it is half empty glass are called pessimists. They do not brave to overcome troubles in their live; in contrast‚ they usually live in fear that bad things will come to them. In simple terms‚ pessimists have the negative
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Half of the Glass Is the glass half empty or half full? This is a common question that many people have asked themselves in the past. Depending on the person‚ there are two major answers. If the person is an optimist‚ the glass is half full. If the person is a pessimist‚ the glass is half empty. Winston Churchill once said‚ “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." The pessimist is the more realistic and cautious person. The optimist
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In life it up to an individual person to decide whether or not to look at the glass half full or half empty. Throughout chapter 1-3‚ and the view of psychology in general seems emphasize the glass being half full rather than half empty. Two things that seem to apply to my life was chapter one over behaviorism and chapter three depression. During the 1890s Ivan Pavlov ran an experiment based on innate response. His experiment was based of dogs and their behavior with potential stimuli. In this situation
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world we have both pessimists and optimists‚ no one will argue that they don’t see things differently‚ after all‚ that is how those two terms came about. Possibly everyone has heard of the half-filled glass "experiment" — a pessimist will see the glass as being half empty while an optimist would see it as half full. A prime example of different people having different perspectives. However‚ humans also happen to display this seemingly intrinsic ability to have common thoughts and feelings about matters
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miserable and gloomy. Instead‚ thoughts like‚ “I’m not going to fail or make a mistake and if I try my best then I will be happy”‚ will be far better. Statistics have proven that positive thinking extends your life. Is the glass of water half full or half empty? In reality‚ it’s both! Reality. Realist. That is what we should be. It is the best possible option‚ no gloomy pessimism or blindly hopeful optimism. Just reality. As William Arthur Ward said‚ “The pessimist complains about the wind‚ the optimist
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others. According to almost every motivational book I have read‚ motivation starts with positive thinking. I believe that my cup is half-full‚ I keep an open mind about most things‚ and I believe that out of every bad situation something good comes of it. I guess you could say that I am an optimist. Pessimists on the other hand believe that their glass is half-empty and automatically expect the worst outcome when situations arise. Your attitude towards life can greatly affect the reality you create
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Assignment: Optimism and Health Andrea Pulis PSY/220 October 9‚ 2012 Ratonya Bennett For this paper‚ I researched two peer reviewed articles which discusses the effects of optimism and psychological health. The first one that I found is called Optimism and Physical Health: A Meta-analytic Review by Heather N. Rasmussen‚ Ph.D.‚ Michael F. Scheier‚ Ph.D.‚ and Joel B. Greenhuse‚ Ph.D. It was published in 2009. The second article that I located is called Perceived Academic Control: mediating the
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