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Optimist

An optimist is a person who, even being between two troubles, always makes a wish.

You are the person who charges those around you with your positive energy. Very often, people enter your social circle only to bask in the rays of your positive. You perceive any problems as temporary difficulties and always sincerely believe that everything will work out and be even better! You are intolerant of people around you who love to exaggerate. Do you think that life should be lived only in a positive mood or not lived at all!

People around you love you, and many sincerely envy your easy nature.

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Pessimist



"A pessimist sees difficulties in every opportunity, an optimist sees opportunities in every difficulty" W. Churchill.

A pessimist is that person who will make two minuses out of a plus. Pessimistic people are always set on a bad outcome, even when nothing portends trouble.

Most often, a pessimist leads a secluded life, he has very few or no friends. At the same time, such an outcome of the case does not bother him at all, because the pessimist knows that in this world you can not trust anyone.

Communication with a pessimistic person makes people feel resentment and a desire to say goodbye to this person as soon as possible. Despondency, melancholy, detachment, belief in the worst are the faithful companions of a pessimist.

In order not to completely slide into the abyss of their own experiences and eternal disappointments, a pessimist should certainly surround himself with optimists or, at worst, realists. Both those and others will balance his picture of the world, not two completely paint over the whole world with dark colors.

If you feel that debilitating blues and an eternally bad mood have become your eternal companions, immediately seek help from a specialist.

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Realist



A pessimist complains about the wind. An optimist hopes for a change in the weather. The realist sets sail.

Judgment, excellent self-control, the ability to always control the situation are your indispensable companions. In any confusing, strange and often incomprehensible situation, you know how to find the only right solution. See the world through pink glasses or, on the contrary, exaggerate - definitely not in your habit. Your realism has always helped you out, even if you find yourself in the most delicate situations.

You hate it when people begin to explain obvious phenomena, guided by the theories of magic and esotericism.If you make any mistake or oversight, then carefully analyze the situation and try to do everything so that this does not happen again.

It is possible that sometimes you would like to be more reckless and frivolous. But in the end, you realize that you just couldn't live with it.

You never let people get close before you "test them". Those who do not deserve your trust will never be near you. You are constantly in search of that ideal state in which you would like to be in this life. You do not like careless, careless, lazy, reckless people.

Your exceptional intellectual abilities and attitude to reality leave no doubt that in life you will surely succeed in your chosen profession.

Test. Optimist or pessimist?

In many dictionaries, optimism is defined as a perception of the world around, imbued with cheerfulness and faith in the future, and pessimism is a perception imbued with despondency and disbelief in a better future.

In the opinion of pessimists, failures will last a long time, relate to most areas of their lives, and they themselves are to blame for them. AT difficult situation pessimists get depressed.
Optimists, on the other hand, cannot be broken by failure. After all, they are temporary, concern only a small part of their lives, and the optimists themselves are innocent of these problems. They are more likely to succeed at work, in sports and studies, in their personal lives.

Two people - two different views, two different approaches to life. There are people who always lack something, there is always something to complain about. There are others: they know how to rejoice, to find a bright moment in any situation. And the point here is not what a person has, but how he evaluates what he has.

Klaus Fieder, a professor of psychology at Heidelberg University, as a result of many years of research, came to the conclusion that people in a gloomy mood think conservatively, but out of fear of making a mistake, they work carefully. On the contrary, a cheerful mood stimulates discoveries, a creative approach to business, but also a willingness to take risks that are fraught with failure. Therefore, probably, the most correct decision is to be able to find a golden mean: not to exaggerate troubles and not to indulge yourself with illusions.

How do you look at the world around you? Answer the test questions "Yes" or "Not".

1. Do you like to travel?

2. Would you like to learn something else besides what you already know?

3. Do you often take sleeping pills, sedatives?

4. Do you like visiting and receiving guests?

5. Do you often manage to foresee impending troubles?

6. Don't you think that your friends have managed to achieve more in life than you?

7. Is there a place in your life for some kind of sports activities?

8. Do you feel that fate is unfair to you?

9. Are you worried about a possible global environmental catastrophe?

10. Do you agree that scientific progress creates more problems than it solves?

11. Have you chosen a profession successfully?

12. Have you insured your property?

13. Would you agree to move to another city if you were offered an interesting job there?

14. Are you satisfied with your appearance?

15. Do you often feel sick?

16. Is it easy for you to get used to an unfamiliar environment, to find your place in a new team?

17. Do people around you consider you an energetic, active person?

18. Do you believe in selfless friendship?

19. Are there personal good omens for you - lucky numbers, lucky days of the week, etc.?

20. Do you believe that everyone is the blacksmith of their own happiness?

Let's summarize.

Put 1 point for answer "Yes" to questions 1, 2, 4, 7, 11 and 13-20 , and 0 points for answer "Not" to the same questions.

Put 1 point for answer "Not" to questions 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12 and
0 points for answer "Yes" to the same questions.

Count your points. If you typed:

0-4 points

It seems that life has pretty battered you, and you no longer expect anything good from it. Adversity is inevitable, joy is accidental. Self-pity and distrust of people prevent you from enjoying life. To cheer up and perk up a little, learn to appreciate the little joys that fall to each of us. Don't forget: life is never so bad that it cannot be changed by our attitude towards it.

5-9 points

By nature, you are a cheerful person, but in the trials of life you have lost a fair amount of your optimism. Sorrows and unfulfilled hopes often darken your mood. Your actions are mainly dictated not by the desire for a goal, but by the desire to avoid failure. As a result, little is achieved. After all, when you expect trouble, they are bound to happen. Try changing the angle of view. You have enough strength to turn things around for the better.

10-14 points

Congratulations, you are a realist, a sane person, knowing the price yourself and people. Know how to set realistic goals and achieve them. You clearly see the shadowy sides of life, but are not inclined to savor them. For your friends and loved ones, you are a reliable support, because you know how to console in grief and cool down excessive delight.

15-18 points

You are full of vitality and optimism, you always know how to find the bright side in events and people, if it is worth doing. Despondency rarely visits you, as it is not a completely constructive emotion, in your opinion. However, such a position is fraught with some misunderstanding with others who do not share your optimism. You should think about the reasons for both their dissatisfaction and your confidence that everything will be fine. Is there any basis for these opinions and how important is it? How successful are you with this approach to life? Are your efforts adequate for the result you get?

19-20 points

Your optimism is just overwhelming. It’s as if troubles don’t exist for you, and you simply brush them aside, hurrying towards new joys. However, think about it: is your position too frivolous? It is possible that underestimating serious problems one day will force you to face unexpected disappointments.

Has anyone ever called you a pessimist? If yes, but you don't agree with this opinion and you want to know if it's true or not, this article is for you. A realist is often confused with a pessimist. But the truth is that they are two completely different personalities. And, therefore, ... what is the difference between a realist and a pessimist?

First of all, it is important to understand that the tendency to see negative qualities in various things is normal. There is an evolutionary and adaptive reason behind this. This is to protect us from things that could potentially harm us.

In other words, our system psychological protection more focused on things that go wrong and that can hurt us. For her, this is much more important than anything that is going well and currently benefiting us. However, when someone sees only the negative features of what is happening, this is a pessimist. In such a case, this adaptive negative detection function becomes a problem and spoils the mood.

In fact, there is an intermediate state between pessimism and optimism. Optimists tend to look at the world through rose-colored glasses. And the state between pessimism and realism is called realism. In order to explain the characteristics of a realist from a pessimist and to help you determine which one you are, we'll go over some important concepts below.

Pessimist: what distinguishes him?

When a person is a pessimist, they have a cognitive attitude that the psychologist Aaron Beck called selective abstraction. In other words, due to this opinion, pessimists pay attention only to information in a negative color and accept only it.

This is why pessimists pay attention to negative information and remember it. Many times, without even noticing it, they filter the information and see only negative things.

If you consider yourself a pessimist and think you are falling into this cognitive error, don't worry! There is a solution for this. There are scientifically proven psychological methods such as cognitive restructuring and cognitive fusion. They are meant to help the pessimist distance themselves from certain thoughts. They can also help him change his automatic psychological processes and patterns of negative thinking.

“A pessimist complains about the wind. An optimist hopes for a change in the weather. The realist sets sail."
-William George Ward-

Am I a pessimist?

If you want to know who you are, remember that pessimists see difficulties and expect worse outcomes. Even if it's very unlikely.

In the sense that being a pessimist is partly due to having an anxiety-based personality type. These are the people who stay at one end of the worry "line" and therefore see life from a negative perspective. When a person is a pessimist, he unconsciously tends to limit himself, thinks about the worst and is more prone to uncertainty. He focuses on uncertainty, expecting to be able to be prepared for the worst.

Basically, if you are a pessimist, you automatically see negative aspects even in positive events or situations in your life. In other words, pessimists focus on the things that went wrong despite success. As a pessimist, it's hard for you to enjoy your accomplishments because you're focused on what could be better.

"true realism lies in showing amazing things that habit prevents us from seeing" - Jean Cocteau -

So... who is a realist?

First of all, the realist is characterized by the fact that he is in no hurry to judge. He waits to see how things are before giving his opinion. He waits to see what happens, and when he has collected all the facts, he makes an assessment. Only then does he decide whether something is good or bad.

The realist therefore remains relatively neutral until the impact of the situation is clarified. He is able to adapt his expectations to reality.

In the same way, a realist not only mentally prepares for everything that can go wrong (remember the objective facts). He is also preparing himself for the possibility that he may succeed. In other words, this is a person who is ready for any outcome of events, both negative and positive. He knows how to use his achievements and is ready for possible failure. But failures do not prevent him from taking one more step to get closer to his chosen goal.

You probably already understand that a realist does not use catastrophic thinking. Correctly evaluates the positive and negative sides situations or problems. This is the basis of realism.

If, after reading the explanations above, you find that you are a pessimist, we would like to remind you that a psychologist can help change these aspects of your personality. This will help you break down the catastrophic and selective filtering of the information you use every day. Do something good for yourself and make an appointment with a psychologist.