The Value of Optimism

The Value of Optimism

The Value of Optimism

Years before I studied a hardback designated Learned Optimism chronicled by Martin E.P. Seligman. The following excerpt thoroughly opened my eyes to what it needs for being triumphant inside the insurance market.

"Life insurance agents, as a group, are more optimistic than people from any walk of life we have ever tested: car salesmen, commodity traders who scream all day long in the pits, West Point plebes, managers of Arby's restaurants, the candidates for the office of President of the United States during this century, major-league baseball stars, or world-class swimmers."

Learned Optimism is an opinion that a skill in joy, akin to any other skills, can be cultivated. That is in open distinction to "learned helplessness." Learning optimism is accomplished by consciously challenging self talk if it involves a negative experience, such as a personal catastrophe, that irrevocably affects all areas of a person's life.

Altering the damaging thoughts you voice to yourself once you are subjected to the setbacks that life throws at all of us is the central preception of Learned Optimism. With knowing the single destructive addiction of negativity, with its invasive, crippling consequences, we are able to be taught to reject its appealing song, however intensely seated in the brain or a habit it may be. We can learn to pick optimism, and observe cynicism when it is necessary.

2 Edges Of Optimism

1. Optimistic sales agents produce more, especially under pressure.

Talent alone is not enough.

2. Durable confidence is an apparent virtue for "high defeat" along with "high stress" projects that need initiative, persistence and daring dreaming. If we're to be managers which are well equipped to look at this Company as well as the citizens it serves into the future, I recommend we build up a vigorous and lithe optimism. This will empower ourselves and others to live fuller, richer lives.

As you carry on your journey, memorize these words from the German Lutheran pastor and theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer:

"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy."

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