Chuck Bryan

I've got an even better example.

There's one that said you've been looking for a job unsuccessfully for a long time.

Then you'd write in the cause.

Say you said it was a bad economy or you even said I'm not good at interviewing.

Then it says, OK, they ask you questions about the cause, like how much of that is due to the actions of yourself versus other causes.

And so you might say like, well, I'm going through a bad spell right now.

So, you know, it's probably me and my gloomy nature right now.

And they'll say, well, how likely is it that the issue is going to be present the next time that you interview?

You can say, well, I expect to be feeling a lot better next time, so maybe I'll be doing a little better.

And then how much does it extend to other parts of your life?

So there's 12 of those.

And from that, apparently you can glean quite clearly whether somebody leans pessimist or optimist.

based on their responses because again it's do things happen because you screwed up right or because you are capable of achieving good things is it always that way if you if if things go wrong for you is that just par for the course and then if something goes wrong for you does your whole life just get disrupted like those things he figured out are actually really predictive and it makes a lot of sense

Yeah, it's it's interesting.

It's almost like someone who is like a self-actualized person as opposed to someone who feels like they're just sort of a victim in life.

Yeah, for sure.

You know, for sure.

So Martin Seligman, once again, he put forth this idea that there was an antidote to this idea of learned helplessness, which is this, I imagine it's awful, this really draining thought that I just can't control anything that happens and all these negative things that happen to me, like I can't do anything about that.

he put forth the idea of learned optimism.

But that has to go on the assumption that optimism and pessimism aren't just these fixed things in your life.