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“Optimists recover from their momentary helplessness immediately. Very soon after failing, they pick themselves up, shrug, and start trying again.”
― Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
― Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
“The optimists believe defeat is just a temporary setback.”
― Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
― Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
“Confidence is a sense of certainty about your ability, which allows you to bypass conscious thought and execute unconsciously.”
― The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance
― The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance
“after seven years of experiments, it was clear to us that the remarkable attribute of resilience in the face of defeat need not remain a mystery. It was not an inborn trait; it could be acquired.”
― Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
― Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
“This crisis and its resolution shaped their explanatory style for bad events, making it temporary, specific, and external.”
― Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
― Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
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