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Optimism is closely related to The Perceptual Tradition: Whether you are a pessimist or an optimist depends
on how you explain bad
events to yourself.
• Your mother and teachers had the most influence on your "explanatory
style."
• Pessimists often personalize bad life events, attributing them to permanent, pervasive causes. Yet
they ascribe temporary, impersonal, specific causes to good events. Martin Seligman Learned Optimism p 132
- Glen Elder research
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