Originally Posted By: flowmom
So I just did the Learned Optimism test here:

http://www.stanford.edu/class/msande271/onlinetools/LearnedOpt.html

The results say that I am pretty average in how I deal with bad things happening. It's my cognitive style around good things happening that is problematic. I tend to see good things that happen as short lived (temporary), caused by someone else (external), and only affecting a partial area of my life (specific). Overall I am "very pessimistic" as a result.

I can see that optimism could play a huge role in creating a better future for myself, so this is something that I'd like to investigate more.

Pervasiveness Bad Score moderately optimistic
Good minus Bad Score very optimistic


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