(Sharot, 2012) Yes, we can be collectively pessimistic about the state of affairs (maybe currently due to a pandemic, environmental mishaps & emergencies, innumerable protests & clashes, poor governance, questionable leaderships & democracies etc.), but as individuals, we tend to be remarkably optimistic about our private lives and success of our own endeavors.
Tali Sharot, a leading expert in optimism bias & cognitive neuroscience pointed out that human beings are more optimists than realists, & that our brains are engineered & wired that way, as optimistically biased people. Nonetheless, who expected a few nanometers sized corona virus to cause a pandemic, bringing millions of lives to halt and revolutionize the world? What do we all think our lifespan is? Today, I feel miserable, when some people are so casual and complacent about their precautionary measures against COVID. How do you see your future? Do you see yourself having stable/better health, finances, and relationships than the present time? Or you see yourself meeting with an accident & losing a limb? Or contracting Covid/any debilitating illness? A bad relationship-breakup or divorce? Job loss? Missing the most important appointment/ meeting of your life? Failure of your start up? Or worse, death? I would not anticipate any of such things happening to me. Optimism bias or the Illusion of Invulnerability refers to overestimating likelihood of positive future events in our life and underestimating the likelihood of negative life events. However, unrealistic optimism/optimism bias/an illusion of invulnerability could pose a danger. (“The Optimism Bias: Imagining A Positive Future”, n.d.) Optimism has an evolutionary purpose, and is behind all the advancement in our lives, from early cave men to the present 21 st century. It acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy, helps us take risks, learn more & succeed, reduces stress & anxiety, elevates our mood and happiness, reduces the risk of coronary heart disease/death & thus improves health and wellbeing, just to name a few benefits. Like this story? Like CNBC Make It on Facebook.Optimism can be one’s biggest strength. "Visualize the steps you will take in order to make success happen." "Don't visualize success," the author writes.
To become a realistic optimist, the author suggests you not only maintain a positive outlook, but also run an honest assessment of the challenges you might face.
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"People who are confident that they will succeed and equally confident that success won't come easily put in more effort, plan how to deal with problems before they arise and persist longer in the face of difficulty," the author writes. "When things are going poorly, he's comfortable admitting that and he's comfortable telling others both when Berkshire's performance is bad and when the broader market is bad."īuffet managed to remain transparent through his realistic optimism with company stakeholders.īut "visualizing effortless success," Grant Halvorson notes, "can be disastrous." "To me this communicates that even in negativity, Buffett is thinking about solutions and charting a path forward," Toth tells CNBC Make It.
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