Rewire Your Brain for Optimism and Success
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
3.8 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 1022 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Rewire Your Brain for Optimism and Success. Adapted from the book Success is For You by Dorothy Quigley.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Try to see how the laws of nature work and be an optimist. Be a liberal, tolerant one. The jokester says, “A pessimist is one who has met an optimist.” That's a fine hint not to make your optimism too ill-advised, too belligerent. You will hear the unreflecting say, “The optimist is a fool. The pessimist understands life; gets below the surface of things; hears the ceaseless murmur of woe through all the immemorial years.” Sing back to them: “No, the optimist is the wise person. The pessimist is the fool.”
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| 1:11.3 | Welcome to the inspirational living podcast. Today's reading has been edited and adapted from |
| 1:31.5 | Successes for You by Dorothy Quigley, published in 1899. |
| 1:40.6 | How can one be cheerful when life is so tragic you ask? |
| 1:45.0 | When life is so serious and there is so much sadness, how can one be joyful? |
| 1:53.0 | Well, if life is tragic to you, perhaps you have made it so. |
| 2:00.0 | Perhaps you have made no effort to understand yourself, |
| 2:03.6 | and, unstable as water, you have been swayed by every changing circumstance, every whim, and every |
| 2:13.6 | impulse, becoming a victim instead of a master of your emotions. |
| 2:20.6 | Perhaps unaware as you have been so supremely selfish and exacting that you have demanded |
| 2:26.7 | too much of others and have exhausted their interest, love, and patience. |
| 2:34.0 | Perhaps you have allowed yourself to be deceived, although you have every power within |
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