10 Choosing Optimism

名称：10 Choosing Optimism
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晨读英语美文 励志感悟
[00:01.40]Choosing Optimism
[00:06.65]If you expect something to turn out badly, it probably will.
[00:12.56]Pessimism is seldom disappointed.
[00:15.41]But the same principle also works in reverse.
[00:19.13]If you expect good things to happen, they usually do!
[00:23.17]There seems to be a natural cause-and-effect relationship between optimism and success.
[00:29.30]Optimism and pessimism are both powerful forces,
[00:33.79]and each of us must choose which we want to shape our outlook and our expectations.
[00:39.91]There is enough good and bad in everyone’s life—ample sorrow and happiness,
[00:45.71]sufficient joy and pain—to find a rational basis for either optimism or pessimism.
[00:52.28]We can choose to laugh or cry, bless or curse.
[00:56.87]It’s our decision: From which perspective do we want to view life?
[01:01.79]Will we look up in hope or down in despair?
[01:05.51]I believe in the upward look.
[01:08.25]I choose to highlight the positive and slip right over the negative.
[01:13.06]I am an optimist by choice as much as by nature.
[01:17.11]Sure, I know that sorrow exists.
[01:20.61]I am in my 70s now, and I’ve lived through more than one crisis.
[01:25.32]But when all is said and done, I find that the good in life far outweighs the bad.
[01:31.89]An optimistic attitude is not a luxury; it’s a necessity.
[01:36.81]The way you look at life will determine how you feel, how you perform,
[01:41.62]and how well you will get along with other people.
[01:44.80]Conversely, negative thoughts, attitudes,and expectations feed on themselves;
[01:50.93]they become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
[01:54.09]Pessimism creates a dismal place where no one wants to live.
[01:58.36]The only thing more powerful than negativism is a positive affirmation,
[02:03.72]a word of optimism and hope.
[02:05.91]One of the things I am most thankful for is the fact that
[02:10.07]I have grown up in a nation with a grand tradition of optimism.
[02:14.22]When a whole culture adopts an upward look, incredible things can be accomplished.
[02:19.59]When the world is seen as a hopeful, positive place,
[02:23.53]people are empowered to attempt and to achieve.