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Are You an Optimist, Pessimist, or Realist?
Enlightened Empaths
Samantha Fey and Denise Correll
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Do you see the glass as half empty, half full or just a glass of water? In this episode, we are talking about how optimists, pessimists and realists see life, make choices, and interact with the world from their own unique perspective.
So whether you view the world through rose colored glasses, wait for the proverbial shoe to drop, or see life through a completely clear and unfiltered lens, it’s just another aspect in accepting how you navigate your life and may help you during these times of upheaval and change.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to enlightened empaths, your community for the spiritually awakened. |
| 0:06.0 | This week we're going to be talking about optimist, pessimist, and realist. |
| 0:11.0 | And hopefully we'll define the terms and try to find a way to |
| 0:15.0 | fluidly move between all the terms because from what Denise and I have researched |
| 0:19.5 | you really don't want to be just an optimist or just a realist or just a pessimist. |
| 0:25.0 | There's different times in our lives that call for different labels that we need to embrace. |
| 0:30.0 | I got the idea for this show, Denise, when I read this article by Sharon Ackman on Medium, |
| 0:39.0 | and she was researching men who had survived being a POW in Vietnam and what her |
| 0:46.9 | research showed was that it wasn't the optimist or the pessimist who survived |
| 0:51.3 | and thrived it was the realist who survived and thrived. It was the realist. And I thought, well that's an interesting perspective. And she starts out the article by quoting a Vietnam POW survivor. He's a Medal of Honor recipient, |
| 1:04.0 | Commander James Stockdale, and he was asked who didn't make it out of the |
| 1:09.2 | POW camps and he said, oh that's easy the optimist |
| 1:14.0 | Well surprise you it does surprise me but with some of the things that I was reading about getting ready for this show, it kind of makes sense too. |
| 1:24.8 | And as we talk about the different characteristics of which category you may fall in, |
| 1:29.8 | I think it's also really important to remember all of this is on a continuum like anything else. |
| 1:36.1 | So there's an ebb and flow. I think we all have a default position, a propensity towards one being more optimistic or being more of a realist or being more of a pessimist, but I do think that there is a spectrum to this just like everything else. |
| 2:00.5 | Yeah, I agree. Now she said in that article that the optimistic POWs, they were sure they'd be home by Christmas, |
| 2:05.0 | done Easter. Then they pinned all their hopes on the 4th of July, and then the next Christmas. |
| 2:07.3 | And the study showed that all of their high expectations |
| 2:10.3 | that would then shatter with each coming you know deadline passing and not |
| 2:14.4 | them not being home led to this roller coaster of emotions which Ackman says |
| 2:19.9 | diminish their endurance and Stockdale, the commander who survived, he said, |
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