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Pessimism is a learned cognitive habit, and the explanatory style that causes it can be systematically unlearned through disputation and flexible thinking.
mind-and-cognition
Was this a laboratory model of human helplessness—how it comes about, how to cure it, how to prevent it, who was particularly vulnerable?
VLA-C1CFC413-RC-024Pessimism-rumination chain leads to depression: a permanent, pervasive, personal cause, then a conscious expectation of future helplessness.
VLA-C1CFC413-RC-074self-and-identity
If you have a negative explanatory style, you no longer need to live under the tyranny of pessimism when bad events strike.
VLA-C1CFC413-RC-177Extreme individualism maximizes pessimistic explanatory style—failure is probably my fault, because who else is there but me?
VLA-C1CFC413-RC-230transformation
Focus on changeable, specific, nonpersonal causes. Push hard at generating alternative beliefs, undoing the destructive habit of pessimistic thinking.
VLA-C1CFC413-RC-187What we want is not blind optimism but flexible optimism—optimism with its eyes open, able to use pessimism's keen sense of reality when needed.
VLA-C1CFC413-RC-236Illuminates
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