We only need 40mg of this vitamin a day for optimal performance. This is a truth as pertains to both natural and supernatural law.Ī helpful analogy for balance is our daily intake of vitamins. What we need for optimal performance must be at the right amount. It’s one of my life’s missions, to acquire balance in myself, and to help others attain it too – not just physiological balance (what is called homeostasis), but in all things that ontologically touch a human’s personhood. Excessive optimismĪs with all things of nature or spirit, balance exists and must be attained. One of the earliest use of the term ‘optimism’ is in the work of Leibniz in the early 1700’s, but in modern history, the scholarly works into mental health of Fromm (1955), Freud (1966), Taylor & Brown (1988) and Seligman (today looked up to as the father of positive psychology) bring us to the popular definition of ‘optimism’ as we know it today, which is ‘a generalised expectation that good things will happen’ (Carver & Scheier, 2009) and is regarded as an attributional style (Seligman, 2006), a trait (Carver & Scheier, 2009) and an inherent human characteristic (Sharot, Riccardi, Raio & Phelps, 2007). Judeo-Christianity defines hope as the ‘greatest of all God’s gifts’, together with the other theological virtues of faith and charity. Loss of hope results in a loss of optimism, for optimism cannot survive without hope. Optimism’s root, called ‘hope’, is a foundational virtue for its rise in the human heart and provides its nourishment. It was the first time I’d ever heard the word optimist (to my recollection) and have felt close to it ever since! What is ‘optimism’? When it came to my turn, I was described as a nightingale because I sang and because I was an optimist.
I really loved this group activity, and even now I tend to use it as a team-building exercise for already existing working groups (or families)! One at a time, we had to wait outside the room whilst the others discussed which animal he or she was most like, and to describe his or her qualities.
#Optimism and pessimism are both delusion professional#
If there is someone in your personal or professional life showing these kinds of behaviours, it could be that you are having to deal with a delusional optimist.ĭuring a week-long school trip to Shrewsbury in year 6 (ages 10-11), our year group were divided into smaller groups for a group activity.
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