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• “An upbeat environment fosters mental efficiency, making people better at taking in and understanding information, at using decision rules in complex judgements, and at being flexible in their thinking.”
• “Teaching ten-year-old children the skills of optimistic thinking and action cuts their rate of depression in half when they go
through puberty.”
• “A study of insurance salespeople (shows) a 56 percent sales advantage among the optimists.”
• “Optimistic managers are more likely to be engaged managers who are more likely to engage employees; engaged employees, in turn, are more optimistic and productive than disengaged employees, and their increased productivity increases profitability.”
• “Of the fifty-four couples, sixteen divorced or separated over the four years, and the more positive their explanations (Ed. note: explanations about/for their partner, i.e., “he was tired” vs. “he was in a bad mood”), the more likely they were to stay together. The upshot of this is straightforward. Optimism helps marriage.”
• Optimists report a higher level of physical and mental functioning than pessimists, according to Mayo Clinic researchers. “The wellness of being is not just physical but attitudinal,” says Dr. Toshihiko Maruta.
• “…optimists had 19 percent greater longevity, in terms
of their expected life span, compared to that of the pessimists.”
• “Men with high levels of optimism had less than half the risk for combined fatal and nonfatal myocardial infarction and for angina pectoris. The greater their optimism, the lower the risk for cardiac incidents.”
• “Managers who got sick or who sank to low performance displayed a sense of alienation: they felt externally controlled, often overwhelmed or helpless, and tried to find security by regressing and turning situations back to the way they were.”