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Author : F. M. Esfandiary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Optimism One written by F. M. Esfandiary and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin E.P. Seligman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307803341
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Learned Optimism written by Martin E.P. Seligman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The father of positive psychology draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to show you how to overcome depression, boost your immune system, and make yourself happier. "Vaulted me out of my funk.... So, fellow moderate pessimists, go buy this book." —The New York Times Book Review Offering many simple techniques anyone can practice, Dr. Seligman explains how to break an “I–give–up” habit, develop a more constructive explanatory style for interpreting your behavior, and experience the benefits of a more positive interior dialogue. With generous additional advice on how to encourage optimistic behavior at school, at work and in children, Learned Optimism is both profound and practical—and valuable for every phase of life.
Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813937353
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Hope without Optimism written by Terry Eagleton and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his latest book, Terry Eagleton, one of the most celebrated intellects of our time, considers the least regarded of the virtues. His compelling meditation on hope begins with a firm rejection of the role of optimism in life’s course. Like its close relative, pessimism, it is more a system of rationalization than a reliable lens on reality, reflecting the cast of one’s temperament in place of true discernment. Eagleton turns then to hope, probing the meaning of this familiar but elusive word: Is it an emotion? How does it differ from desire? Does it fetishize the future? Finally, Eagleton broaches a new concept of tragic hope, in which this old virtue represents a strength that remains even after devastating loss has been confronted. In a wide-ranging discussion that encompasses Shakespeare’s Lear, Kierkegaard on despair, Aquinas, Wittgenstein, St. Augustine, Kant, Walter Benjamin’s theory of history, and a long consideration of the prominent philosopher of hope, Ernst Bloch, Eagleton displays his masterful and highly creative fluency in literature, philosophy, theology, and political theory. Hope without Optimism is full of the customary wit and lucidity of this writer whose reputation rests not only on his pathbreaking ideas but on his ability to engage the reader in the urgent issues of life. Page-Barbour Lectures
Author : Diane Alber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781951287290
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (872 download)
Download or read book A Little SPOT of Optimism written by Diane Alber and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this boxed set, children are introduced to common life skills: optimisim, courage, thankfulness, finding your talent, teamwork, creativity, perseverance and generosity.
Author : Onaolapo Gabriel Olusola
Publisher : Partridge Africa
ISBN 13 : 1482860414
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Optimism written by Onaolapo Gabriel Olusola and published by Partridge Africa. This book was released on 2020-02-29 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book encourages us to endure painful struggles we have passed through and are passing through so as to rise above discouragement and set back to attain our goals in life. Focus on your future because you have a brilliant future ahead of you. It doesn’t mean it will be easy or pain free; every winner in the Bible experienced pains too. Develop the right attitudes toward yourself. The book reminds us that we should “never, never give up”; your dreams and goals are worth any fight, any price, and any waiting period. Your perseverance is what demoralizes the enemies. Satan loves shy and fearful types, but real fighter intimidates him, so be bold. Never say things that will make the enemy think he is winning. It is instructive as it helps us to know the right steps to take, to take quality decisions about a brilliant and better tomorrow.
Author : Jim Stovall
Publisher : Sound Wisdom
ISBN 13 : 1640950222
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Art of Optimism written by Jim Stovall and published by Sound Wisdom. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimism is your secret weapon in business and in life. It is custom-designed specifically for you, and it is capable of bringing you everything you want. Optimism can overcome financial problems, physical disabilities, and personal challenges. In Jim Stovall’s latest book, The Art of Optimism, he uses stories, studies, and personal experience to illustrate how adopting an attitude of optimism can change your life. Read this book and learn: How to fuel optimism How to find opportunity through optimism How to overcome negative circumstances How to maintain optimism in business and in life How optimism is your most important asset And much more! “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” -Winston Churchill
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Power of Optimism written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Mezzapelle
Publisher : Cleis Press
ISBN 13 : 1936740419
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Contagious Optimism written by David Mezzapelle and published by Cleis Press. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Mezzapelle was inspired to write this uplifting book based on his life's experiences and his own contagious optimism. He has influenced many people with his outlook and this book offers optimism to others around the globe. Contagious Optimism includes stories and parables of amazing life turnarounds from real people world-wide. A compendium of encouragement, Contagious Optimism also includes advice and guidance from business leaders, visionaries and professionals. Nowadays, many people have lost confidence in themselves and the world around them due to personal hardship along with economic and political uncertainty worldwide. Contagious Optimism shows readers that it’s possible to FIND the silver lining in every cloud. Developed by the team that brought you Random Acts of Kindness, this book is like Chicken Soup for the Soul meets Pay It Forward, on steroids! Contagious Optimism is pure inspiration that will lift hearts, open minds, and create a movement of pass-it-on hope and happiness. Featured stories and endorsements from "contagious optimists" such as: Michael Beckwith - Founder of the single largest interfaith church in America: LA's Agape. Nancy Ferrari - The "Oprah of AM Radio" Daniel Tully - Chairman Emeritus of Merrill Lynch and one of the top executives to ever grace Wall Street.
Author : Tali Sharot
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307379833
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Optimism Bias written by Tali Sharot and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychologists have long been aware that most people maintain an irrationally positive outlook on life—but why? Turns out, we might be hardwired that way. In this absorbing exploration, Tali Sharot—one of the most innovative neuroscientists at work today—demonstrates that optimism may be crucial to human existence. The Optimism Bias explores how the brain generates hope and what happens when it fails; how the brains of optimists and pessimists differ; why we are terrible at predicting what will make us happy; how emotions strengthen our ability to recollect; how anticipation and dread affect us; how our optimistic illusions affect our financial, professional, and emotional decisions; and more. Drawing on cutting-edge science, The Optimism Bias provides us with startling new insight into the workings of the brain and the major role that optimism plays in determining how we live our lives.
Author : Lauren Berlant
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822351115
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Cruel Optimism written by Lauren Berlant and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted. People have remained attached to unachievable fantasies of the good life—with its promises of upward mobility, job security, political and social equality, and durable intimacy—despite evidence that liberal-capitalist societies can no longer be counted on to provide opportunities for individuals to make their lives “add up to something.” Arguing that the historical present is perceived affectively before it is understood in any other way, Berlant traces affective and aesthetic responses to the dramas of adjustment that unfold amid talk of precarity, contingency, and crisis. She suggests that our stretched-out present is characterized by new modes of temporality, and she explains why trauma theory—with its focus on reactions to the exceptional event that shatters the ordinary—is not useful for understanding the ways that people adjust over time, once crisis itself has become ordinary. Cruel Optimism is a remarkable affective history of the present.
Author : Frank S. Robinson
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412815819
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Case for Rational Optimism written by Frank S. Robinson and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Case for Rational Optimism tackles a host of challenging subjects in an engaging, accessible, down-to-earth style. It is intellectually serious, ceaselessly intriguing, and devoid of banalities. While other books in this genre tend to be oriented toward self-help, this volume brings evolutionary biology, neuroscience, psychology, sociology, economics, and a keen sense of history to the topic. Robinson begins with three goals: making the case for feeling good about oneself, about humanity in general, and about the global situation. He addresses such seemingly disparate subjects as selfi shness versus altruism, mind and free will, human nature, and issues relating to economics, technology, the environment, and more. Unifying these ideas into a coherent philosophical whole are central concepts: evolution has endowed our species with more good qualities than bad, and why; those qualities, and our use of reason, are the foundations of civilization, and how; and, consistent with our nature, we make a better world by valuing human life therefore enabling others to fl ourish in ways they freely choose. The Case for Rational Optimism argues that the highly challenging conditions confronting early man created a Darwinian selective pressure for cooperation, even altruism, among members of a tribe. Th e author fi nds evidence for this in the way our brains work, and in observable human behavior. He argues against existential despair over the human condition. Even though there probably is no grand celestial design investing life with meaning, he considers this liberating, giving every person the freedom to craft their own meaning. To Robinson, whether sentient beings experience suff ering or joy is the only thing that matters; without emotive highs and lows, the Universe would hardly matter.
Author : Anna J. Willow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000852695
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Anthropological Optimism written by Anna J. Willow and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book theorizes the roles of optimism in anthropological thinking, research, writing, and practice. It sets out to explore optimism’s origins and implications, its conceptual and practical value, and its capacity to contribute to contemporary anthropological aims. In an era of extensive ecological disruption and social distress, this volume contemplates how an optimistic anthropology can energize the discipline while also contributing to bettering the lives, communities, and environments of those we study. It brings together scholars diverse in background, career stage, and theoretical approach in a collective attempt to comprehend the myriad intersections of anthropology and optimism. The challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have recently underscored the larger, longer-term catastrophes of climate change, ecosystemic collapse, social injustice, and antipathy toward scientific knowledge and those who produce it. In this context, exceedingly few anthropologists feel comfortable observing and documenting passively while their research communities face unrelenting waves of (un)natural disasters. We need to act. But we also need to hope. Discontent with the state of the world and cultural anthropology’s turn to increasingly positive, future-oriented, and engaged work have converged to unleash a courageously optimistic anthropology. This book is a timely springboard for this impactful and emergent approach.
Author : Debbie Silver
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 148338425X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Deliberate Optimism written by Debbie Silver and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beat burnout and bring joy back to teaching—and learning! Recharge the optimism that made you an educator in the first place! Choosing optimism—even in the face of tough challenges—helps restore the healthy interactions and positive relationships necessary for enacting real school change. Filled with research-based strategies, practical examples, and thought-provoking scenarios, this inspiring, humorous book gets you ready to Rediscover motivation Take a positive view of events beyond your control Build an optimistic classroom where students flourish Partner with other stakeholders to create an optimistic learning environment
Author : Fred Goodwin
Publisher : Lichtenstein Creative Media
ISBN 13 : 1932479732
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (324 download)
Download or read book Optimism written by Fred Goodwin and published by Lichtenstein Creative Media. This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meir Kay
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN 13 : 9780241742969
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (429 download)
Download or read book A Kids Book about Optimism written by Meir Kay and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 2025-01-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tools for practicing optimism every day! Do you want to be happy? Doesn't everyone? Happiness often comes from a personal shift in perspective, which sounds simple, but can be a real challenge and definitely takes practice! This book is a fun exploration of how to engage an optimistic and empowering mindset and how to make choices that lead to more opportunities, positivity, and joy.
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Publisher : Fred Sterk en Sjoerd Swaen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Optimism and Self-Confidence written by and published by Fred Sterk en Sjoerd Swaen. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dr. Wahyudi Setiawan
Publisher : buatbuku
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Living with Optimism written by Dr. Wahyudi Setiawan and published by buatbuku . This book was released on 2024-09-18 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Living with Optimism: The Art of Maintaining a Positive Mindset Amidst Difficulties" offers practical guidance on cultivating and sustaining a positive outlook, even in challenging times. This eBook explores effective strategies to overcome obstacles, build resilience, and transform setbacks into opportunities for growth. Through insightful tips and actionable techniques, readers will learn how to navigate life's difficulties with a hopeful and constructive mindset. Embrace the power of optimism and discover how to turn adversity into a source of strength and motivation.
