Cam Findlay » optimisim http://camfindlay.com Thoughts, Ideas and Journey of a Samurai Tech Geek Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:34:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Complete the optimism questionnaire and record all your optimism scores. What significance do these scores have to you and what is the next step. http://camfindlay.com/2009/09/complete-the-optimism-questionnaire-and-record-all-your-optimism-scores-what-significance-do-these-scores-have-to-you-and-what-is-the-next-step/ http://camfindlay.com/2009/09/complete-the-optimism-questionnaire-and-record-all-your-optimism-scores-what-significance-do-these-scores-have-to-you-and-what-is-the-next-step/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:42:43 +0000 Cam http://camfindlay.com/?p=379 Having completed the optimism questionnaire as part of the leadership paper my optimism level is apparently “-2″ that being leaning slightly into the pesimistic realm (the scale being -9 to 9).

I am taking this as a healthy dose of pessimism as I am always one to hope for the best, plan for the worst to a realistic level.  This is very useful in working out risk and planning contingently around projects and goals.

d-stressHowever sometime a little pessimism can get you down and it is always good to try and self-improve so my plan next it to work at increasing my levels of learned optimism through positive affirmation techniques, gratitude writing and reading more about positive psychology.

I just picked up a copy of Meiron Lees “D-Stress” book from the local university book shop which looks to be an interesting and practical read around improving optimism.

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