domingo, maio 15, 2022

"optimistic people tend to have more luck than others"

"Viktor Frankl’s experience of taking flying lessons deeply resonated with me: the flight instructor told him that he will always need to aim slightly higher than he would actually want to fly, because the wind will usually pull him down. In Frankl’s understanding, this translates to the idea that if you start as a realist, you end up depressed. But if you start as an optimist, you end up as the real realist. And, as we saw in chapter 2, studies have shown that optimistic people tend to have more luck than others – it is almost a self-fulfilling prophecy that manifests itself."

Trecho retirado de "The Serendipity Mindset" de Christian Busch.

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