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ing hopeless and giving up in
the face of obstacles, they take
the opportunity to put on their
thinking caps and come up with
a creative solution to the problem at hand. Mentally strong
people tend to be realistic optimists — they have the hopefulness of optimists and the clarity of pessimists — which gives
them both the motivation and
the critical thinking required to
come up with creative solutions.
“Every time [realistic optimists] face an issue or a challenge or a problem, they won’t
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Things that we think
are obstacles are actually
opportunities to do something.”
say ‘I have no choice and this
is the only thing I can do,’” researcher Sophia Chou told LiveScience. “They will be creative, they will have a plan A,
plan B and plan C.”
THEY LIVE IN THE PRESENT MOMENT.
Being present — rather than
dwelling on the past or anticipating the future — allows you
to see things as they really are.
Whether or not they have a for-