How an individual thinks about events in his/her life greatly affects the kind of action he/she takes. It is a sense of enthusiasm, confidence and control which develops once one achieves small successes. It is a generalized expectancy that good as opposed to bad outcome will generally occur when confronted with problems across important life domains. Learned optimism is a factor which is supposed to affect satisfaction of the people. Optimism greatly affects the thinking which has strong relationship with action. Hence, optimistic attitude helps individuals to shape their failure as they desire. If a person has learned optimism then his or her behaviour has more positive endeavour, which brings integrity and steady approach resulting into enough room for better performance.
Optimism is a thinking style – hence, it can be adopted and learned by a person. Optimistic person explains his or her success or failure as a result of what he or she does, whereas pessimists react to failure by disappointments and setbacks. It is an effective remedy against hopelessness and pessimism. Optimism is a positive belief that good things will happen independent of one's own ability. Happiness is never a lofty achievement but an entitlement and this is stamped by the wisdom of ages of philosophy and religion as backed by the positive psychology A clear line divides happiness as a self-gratifying hunt for pleasure and happiness clothed as a good life chase whereby the meaning and realization are a result of impulses and desires immediately transcending which cultivate good morals and a struggle for an ideal of the correct human definition. Positive psychology is in essence a self-help that has been repacked, refurbished and branded a science that is well thought-of (Butler-Bowdon, 2007). According to Butler-Bowdon, Positive psychology presents too easy and simply naïve answers to questions that have existed since time immemorial regarding life's meaning and the ways to fulfilling a worth life that many term as good living. The view of this paper is that the new science demonstrates that peoples positive attitudes define success, happiness and achievement and not just associating the health of the mind with a distinct type of personality a status-searching extravert who is objective-oriented, outgoing and cheerful.
According to critics, this positive psychology new science seems to be established on a thread of arguments that are fallacious, tautology, vagueness in defining or applying terms correctly, reasoning that is circular, positing non-existing causal relationships and generalizations that are not justified (Butler-Bowdon, 2007). This tenet posits that individuals want to lead fulfilling and meaningful lives and cultivate the best character so as to enrich their play, love and work experiences as postulated by Martin Seligman in the fields of optimism, resilience, pessimism, learned helplessness and depression (Cieslik, M. The study of this occurrence is what is called Positive Psychology. Individuals and the community in which we all live in have strengths that enable them to thrive well.
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