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“Our brains aren’t just shaped by the past. They are constantly being shaped by our future.”
80% of people describe themselves as optimists. Our brains are wired to see the bright side. Tali Sharot’s TED talk on our collective bias toward optimism went online.
“We are more optimistic than realistic, but we are oblivious to the fact. Take marriage for example. In the Western world, divorce rates are about 40%. But when you ask newlyweds about their own likelihood of divorce, they estimate it at zero percent. Even divorce lawyers. Optimists are not less likely to divorce, but they are more likely to remarry. In the words of Samuel Johnson, “Remarriage is the triumph of hope over experience.”
Some say ‘Happiness correlates with low expectations.’
It’s a good theory, but it turns out to be wrong for three reasons:
1) Whatever happens, whether you succeed or you fail, people with high expectations always feel better, because how we feel — when we get dumped or we win employee of the month — depends on how we interpret that event.
2) Regardless of outcome, anticipation makes us happy.
3) Optimism changes subjective and objective reality. Optimism leads to success. If we expect the future to be bright, stress and anxiety are reduced.”
“A Pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
An Optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
This is the third different cafe in this building, in as many years. It is a pretty street, but there isn't much passing trade.
A winter memory.
Optimism: 1. Finding the good in one's circumstances. 2. The belief that goodness pervades reality. 3. Maddy
That's a snowy cornfield in the background.
March 1, 2018.
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Square pattern print in polyester jersey knit fabric. Pink, orange, and yellow crocheted granny square. Beads and buttons.
catch an elephant by the tail :
A mahout is trying to control an elephant by its tail in a timber workshop.
Kollam, Kerala, India.
Life is weird sometimes. So many odd things going on in our family, and I am grouchy all around. So I am just putting it out in the universe that I intend to be an optimist. See how that works for me. 361/365
is seeing the glass half-full, even if it isn't!
After last night's indulgence "shot" , a cold glass of water helps to awaken the senses and speed up the return to normalcy! Here's to a great weekend, friends!
Canon EF 85mm @ f/1.8
Abandoned buildings in forlorn Cairo, Illinois. The scaffolding near the front door of the brick house on the right suggests an attempt at rehabilitation.
Workplace photo taken between 1946-1949 in New York City. Great faces. The majority of the women were Italian-American, first and-second generation. My mother drew the arrows to indicate her best friends. She's in the second-row, far right, under the arrow.
Best seen in Light Box view.
I Want You To Be Happy Day.....3rd March 2013..... BE HAPPY >>>>GIVE ME A SMILE>>>JUST LIKE THIS...<3
The juxtaposition and the stark contrast of this smiley face amongst the ice and decay shouted optimism in the face of adversity!
This shot was taken in the partially frozen Blackstone River Canal, which besides the smiley face ball was also littered with other debris like the rusty metal pipe shown in the upper portion of the photo.
Reached 134 in Explore.
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ODC-2 Optimism or Pessimism
"Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people."
Zig Ziglar
Um ótimo Domingo e um bom início de semana pra todos vcs... AMIGOS FLICKEIROS!!
Have nice week, my friends!!
Unlike most South Australia towns Ceduna was founded in the 20th century when the optimism of the 19th century farmers had waned. Early explorers had not reported favourably on the land here. Edward John Eyre made his visit to the region in 1839 after sailing to Port Lincoln and then he explored it again in 1840/41. On his second trip he complained about the lack of any water after a ship had provided water to him at Streaky Bay. His party then walked as there was no water for horses. This fateful journey, when Aborigines killed two of his party and Eyre and his Aboriginal friend Wylie nearly died of thirst, Eyre managed to cross the Nullarbor Plain to WA. But none of his reports encouraged settlers. Two explorers Miller and Dutton in 1857 noted no water but said there were good areas of grasslands. The first large pastoral leaseholds were taken up in 1860 but soon surrendered and taken up again after 1868. This was tough country even for sheep. Robert Barr Smith took out the Fowlers Bay run which included Murat Bay and covered 199 square miles. Other leaseholds were also taken up along the coast. All were resumed by the government in the late 1880s when the hundreds were declared. The Hundred of Bonython which covers Ceduna was declared in 1893 and a small farming community began on Murat Bay at Denial Bay. Thirty early settler families petitioned the government for a surveyed town in 1896. This happened in 1901 and it was named Murat Bay. But the town developed very slowly. The first church opened in 1909; the government school only opened in 1914 and minimal development occurred before 1915 when the railway from Port Lincoln reached the town. Before the railway arrived the first government wharf and jetty was built in 1904 to take away the bagged grain at a cost over £6,000; an early stone Institute building was erected; there were two early general stores; the town had a stone hotel –licensed to Mr Charles Mudge in 1901 for opening in 1902; the first police station opened in 1903; the first wooden Post Office opened in 1902; the town before 1909 had a saddler, a blacksmith, a butcher, baker, etc but no candle stick maker.
All the major Christian faiths have been represented in Ceduna. The first church built in Ceduna was the Methodist in 1909 in Poynton Street. Its porched was added 1959 and the “new” church hall was added in 1962. The second church was the early Anglican Church also built in Poynton Street in 1911. It was last used for services in 1954 when the new St Michael’s and All Angels Church across the street opened. It was dedicated by the Bishop of Willochra in 1955 and the adjacent parish hall was built in 1981. The third church erected in town was the Lutheran Church in East Terrace. It was built in 1927 but was in a deteriorating condition by 1970. In 1971 it was demolished and a new Lutheran Church opened. Lutheranism was a strong faith in this region with the Koonibba Lutheran Aboriginal Mission (est. 1901) 39 kms out of town and the early Lutheran Church in Denial Bay 13 kms away which was the first church in the whole region built in 1897. In 1929 the Catholics built a church in Bergman Drive. It was dedicated as Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church. A new parish hall was erected in 1977. Ceduna became its own Catholic parish with a resident priest in 1973 when it broke away from Streaky Bay.