Category: Optimism

  • Exemplification Essay on Optimism

    Exemplification Essay on Optimism Conflicts can arise in a person’s life at any point in life, whether personal level conflicts that exist in a person’s mind or socio-economic level conflicts that exist in the external environment. Nobody is immune to conflict in their life. Conflict is defined as a struggle or a clash between opposing…

  • Is Optimism Harmful or Beneficial?

    Is Optimism Harmful or Beneficial? According to a London-based neurologist who wrote the book Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain, roughly 80% of the human population is naturally optimistic. Its just unknown to most of us. So why is that we often have a negative view on how the world has changed…

  • Optimism and Its Relationship with Subjective Well-Being

    Optimism and Its Relationship with Subjective Well-Being Optimism can be viewed as an attitude or mood that is associated with an individuals expectation about the social or material future. It has been theorized and assessed in many ways, linking it to positive aspects of an individuals life such as mood, morale, health, academia and occupational…

  • Optimism: Main Approaches and Disadvantages

    Optimism: Main Approaches and Disadvantages Optimism can be defined as a mental attitude in which one hopes or believes that the outcome of a specific situation will be positive and desirable. If someone is optimistic, they tend to expect the best possible outcome from any situation. On the other hand, pessimism is the tendency to…

  • Power of Optimism: Persuasive Speech

    Power of Optimism: Persuasive Speech We, unfortunately, live in a world where devastating issues affect the lives of others on a daily basis. Those issues include world hunger, poverty, crime, unemployment, inequality, violence, and diseases. Some countries or areas are affected more by these issues than others. Mexico, for instance, has a poverty rate of…