What's up Spartans? It's Dr. L. here with Spartan Mind, your chief mind doc here at Spartan.

I'm starting a three-part series on what? Optimism because we're

moving out of 2019 moving into 2020 and I want you to start the year off right.

So I'm going to give you three key elements to learning optimism.

Yeah, that's right, learning optimism.

I know some of you might think, well, aren't there just people who are born

optimistic and those that aren't born optimistic it actually doesn't work that way

yes you might meet people who are a little bit more positive than others but we

actually can all learn optimism.

So the first element that we're going to review is that individuals who learn optimism learn that things aren't always permanent.

So let me give you an example of that.

Let's say for example you went and you applied for a new job and unfortunately you didn't

get that job well optimism weaving optimism in would look like this okay I

didn't get that job but there's another job out there for me, right?

That's believing that things aren't permanent. They're not always going to stay the same, okay?

So, and when we begin to weave in that element of optimism, the idea that things are not always permanent,

guess what? We make better choices and we do more.

Because if we're way down by that feeling of choices and we do more.

Because if we're way down by that feeling of pessimism,

if we're way down by that belief that,

gosh, things are always going to be this way,

well, then why would we apply for that other job, right?

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