Lunch Lady Magazine

5 min read

The importance of optimism is drummed into us from an early age. “Look on the bright side,” people say. “Be a glass-half-full person!” “Stop being such a whingey little sad sack!” (You can thank my older brother for that one.) Yet people rarely stop

Men's Health Australia

2 min read

First, you have to expand your concept of “optimism”. It’s not just about thinking nice thoughts. “Optimists look at adversity as temporary, external and not entirely their fault,” explains Jack Singer, a sports psychologist who has helped Olympians

The Atlantic

4 min read

“How we feelin’ out there tonight?” Bo Burnham asks an imaginary audience during his comedy special Inside, which he self-filmed from a single room over the course of a year. “Heh, haha, yeahhhhh,” he says to himself. “I am not feeling good.” Followi

Inc.

3 min read

No one can deny how difficult the past year has been for everyone. The COVID pandemic hit us hard in our personal and business lives. But as the tide begins to turn, business leaders are remarkably optimistic about their prospects for the immediate f

New Internationalist

4 min read

Graeme: You have said that ‘seeing stupid people happy’ makes you depressed. Looking around at global politics, are you currently feeling pretty down? Slavoj: Absolutely. I think a new world order is emerging. A rule that is ideologically and politic

Men's Health Australia

1 min read

OPTIMISM is a performanceenhancing drug: Olympians know this. In fact, when researchers interviewed former Olympians, they discovered one of the traits that separated those who exceeded expectations from those who fell short: a high level of optimism

Entrepreneur

4 min read

Despite what we're often told, positive thinking may not be conducive to meeting one's goals. In fact, you're probably better off visualizing obstacles.

Oxygen

2 min read

getting ahead in life doesn’t just come down to hard work. Your attitude also plays a huge role, and with optimism on your side, you can achieve more than someone with a half-empty attitude. Of course, that’s easier said than done because positivity

Nautilus

2 min read

It’s an odd quirk of the human mind that we tend to think we’re less likely to be affected a particular threat—be it the flu, a car accident, or a flood—than anyone else. Like the fictional town of Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above avera

Diabetic Living Australia

3 min read

Have a worry-later list When a worry pops into your head, write it down and set it aside. Clear 15 minutes from your day to go over the list – when you get around to it, you may not be as concerned. Change expectations Say your sister always makes an

Her World Singapore

6 min read

It’s said that we are what we eat. But are we also what we think? According to Dr Annabelle Chow, a clinical psychologist at Annabelle Psychology, the answer is yes, pretty much. “There is some truth in saying that we are what we think. We use beli

Evening Standard

5 min read

OK, so 2020 hasn’t been the year that you expected. Between Covid-induced health anxiety, job insecurity and a general sense of impending doom, we’ve felt mentally overburdened for months. Not to mention there’s been no release: a staycation is no ma

Blue Mountains Life

2 min read

Iaving a “glass half full” approach to life has long been considered important for overall wellness. But evidence suggests that there may be truth in this folk wisdom. Humana recently surveyed 2,000 people aged 60 and over, and found that 87 percent

Womankind

1 min read

A few years back, positive thinking was all the rage, but recently psychologists have started documenting some downsides to adopting an overly sunny perspective, especially when it comes to setting and achieving your personal goals. Being overly posi

Healthy Food Guide

1 min read

Do you worry about your daydreamy child out in the big wide world? The news is actually good for daydreamers, with a study linking mind-wandering to greater optimism. Researchers from the University of Western Australia have discovered that spontane

Literary Hub

1 min read

The coronavirus pandemic is dramatically disrupting not only our daily lives but society itself. This show features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the deeper economic, political, and technological consequenc

The Australian Women's Weekly

4 min read

When the calendar ticks over to January 1, we begin to plot and plan. With Christmas behind us, the new year stretching ahead feels like a fresh start. And so we resolve to change. In ancient Rome, this involved making sacrifices to a two-faced god a

Women's Running

1 min read

SCIENCE SAYS: Your bad attitude is doing you no good. New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that a negative outlook might actually shorten your lifespan. In the study, researchers collected and reviewed s

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

2 min read

Optimists see only the bright side. Optimists don’t think life is great all the time or force themselves to always be positive. Instead of fighting negative thoughts, optimists appreciate those feelings for what they may really be signalling. They ex

Futurity

2 min read

Even in tough times, humans are optimists for most of our lives, according to a new study. Researchers led the largest study of its kind to determine how optimistic people are in life and when as well as how major life events affect how optimistic th

Sunday Tribune

2 min read

TOP-PERFORMING public schools were optimistic over the official announcement of matric results tomorrow. Raisethorpe Secondary School acting principal Pragalathan Gounden said he was “anxious” after his school had achieved over 90% pass rate previous

Chat It's Fate

1 min read

Three studies in peer reviewed journals found that positive thinking is good for the immune system, reduces anxiety, and increases positive emotions. This doesn’t mean you need to go round with rose-tinted glasses on, telling yourself things are grea

NPR

3 min read

Pessimists may suspect this finding, but researchers who tracked the health outcomes of thousands of adults across many years found optimists were much more likely to reach 85. Optimism is teachable.

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

4 min read

When the calendar ticks over to January 1, we begin to plot and plan. With Christmas behind us, the new year stretching ahead feels like a fresh start. And so we resolve to change. In ancient Rome, this involved making sacrifices to a two-faced god a

STAT

2 min read

A new study adds to the evidence that optimistic men and women may live longer than those who are pessimistic.

North & South

11 min read

Are we simply too clever for our own good? We’ve harnessed nature to feed a growing population with increasingly energy-dense foods, and now many of us are obese. We’ve invented antibiotics, but many bugs are now resistant. Our dependence on digital

Simply Woman & Home

4 min read

It can be hard not to let negativity seep into your day, especially after the year we’ve all endured. Yet, a dose of optimism not only makes you feel better, it’s also good for your physical and emotional health – even if initially you need to force

Fashion Quarterly

2 min read

I think often when we hear the word “success” it’s linked to commercial prosperity, the “big number” that is reported on as a measure of accomplishment. The Cambridge Dictionary defines it as “the achieving of the results wanted or hoped for”. So wri

Longevity Magazine

6 min read

GABI LOWE IS THE EXTRAORDINARY MOTHER OF JENNA LOWE, AN INCREDIBLE YOUNG WOMAN WHO, IN HER SHORT LIFE, TOUCHED THE HEARTS – AND WILL SHAPE THE LIVES – OF THOUSANDS, RAISING AWARENESS AND HOPE AROUND PULMONARY HYPERTENSION AND ORGAN DONATION AROUND TH

Better Homes and Gardens Australia

3 min read

REALITY Optimists don’t think life is great all the time. And they don’t force themselves to always be positive. What they do do, however, is embrace, rather than fight, negative emotions, in order to understand what they are signalling. Our more unc