Chuck Bryan

And I went and listened to Alone Again naturally, and then everything was all right again.

Okay.

That's good.

Attributional optimism or pessimism is what we mentioned earlier is the other side of that coin.

And that's when you're either saying, like, this thing that was good in my life is –

happened because of this good thing only, or this bad thing that happened, happened because of this bad thing only.

It's basically assigning blame to what happens in your life.

And if you're, you know, some of this stuff is kind of no brainer.

If you're optimistic, you are much more prone to attribute negative events to a specific thing like, hey, things usually work out for me and this didn't just because of this.

Whereas if you're a pessimist, it's like, no, this happened to me just because this kind of stuff always happens to me.

Yeah, and in the same vein, if you're a pessimist and something good happens to you, like that was just one in a million chance it's never going to happen again.

That makes me so sad.

It is, but that's usually how it works on this test, the attributional style questionnaire.

I looked at that one too.

That's a Martin Seligman joint.

And it's 12 questions, 12 situations actually, where it says, so for example, one of them will say, a friend compliments you on your appearance.

And then it asks you to write in what the cause was, right?

Like you got some new duds or something like that.

Right.

Fresh haircut.