Our behaviours, if prolonged, become habits and our habits become a way of life. Both optimism and pessimism are learned behaviours; that is to say, our attitude or behaviour is not inherent, it is not compulsive, it is not down to chance or fate but rather, it is a chosen response. We choose or determine what our attitudes and responses will be. For example, a man applies but fails to get a promotion at work. How does he respond? He has a choice. He can let the bad news and disappointment get at him, in which case it may well have an adverse effect on his work and maybe even his health, family or career. Alternatively, he can choose to put the disappointment down to experience and bounce straight back into action again, determined to win the next time around. At the end of the day, it really is just a question of choice! You see it’s not so much what happens to us that matters but how we react to what happens to us that makes all the difference.

Our behaviours, if prolonged, become habits and our habits become a way of life. Both optimism and pessimism are learned behaviours; that is to say, our attitude or behaviour is not inherent, it is not compulsive, it is not down to chance or fate but rather, it is a chosen response. We choose or determine what our attitudes and responses will be. For example, a man applies but fails to get a promotion at work. How does he respond? He has a choice. He can let the bad news and disappointment get at him, in which case it may well have an adverse effect on his work and maybe even his health, family or career. Alternatively, he can choose to put the disappointment down to experience and bounce straight back into action again, determined to win the next time around. At the end of the day, it really is just a question of choice! You see it’s not so much what happens to us that matters but how we react to what happens to us that makes all the difference.