7 Skills Optimistic People Use Effortlessly

Are you naturally optimistic?

Or do you spend much of your time lurking in the pessimism zone?

And, out in the world, they’re easier to be around, provided it’s genuine: not an unrealistic, relentless, energiser-bunny kind of optimism.

Optimism, like many psychological concepts is hard to pin down because — in reality — most people spend time in both camps. As Bruce Springsteen put it in describing his songs: optimism and pessimism are “slammed up against each other.”

But some people are more naturally able to dig out of the gloom and remain hopeful, even in the toughest of circumstances. Here’s how they do it.

Optimists are better able to accurately assess the good and bad things that happen — which helps them cope with life’s challenges.

Optimists tend to internalise good news and externalise negative events. It means they’re more likely to give themselves credit for positive news, assume good things will last (and bad times will improve) and be confident that good things will spill over into the rest of their lives. It also means they’re less likely to take negative…

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