From the author: How can you change your view of the world around you? Are you an “optimist” or a “pessimist”? Who are these people? Do you think that if you are a “pessimist”, then this is forever? When do we become “pessimists”? A person acquires skills from childhood during the process of growing up. Perhaps your environment encouraged you to be optimistic, to look for the positive in everything, or vice versa - everyone around you told you that “it’s better to prepare for the worst,” “everything will be bad.” The most effective way to teach a child something is through personal example, a role model. Were there more optimists or pessimists around you? The important thing is that these two “ways of being” - when for some the glass is always “half full” and for others it is “half empty”, it is just a tendency to pay attention to the positive or negative. Pessimism is nothing more than the brain’s habit of noting only the negative aspects of the world around us, a “filter” that determines your perception of the world around you. Therefore, “pessimist” or “optimist” is not a life sentence. To change your perceptual filter, you can try the following technique. Every day before you go to bed, write down three incidents from the past day that could have ended worse but ended well. For example, you were late for something, and a minibus arrived very conveniently. Surely she could have arrived later? And you could be late! But in the end everything happened well and you were not late. The difference between pessimistic and optimistic filters is what a person pays attention to. Train your brain to focus on the positive. Do you think this will give you energy to achieve your goals? Write down at least three such cases before going to bed. Write what happened - “I was waiting for the minibus and it arrived.” What was good about it - “It happened just in time so I could get to work.” How could it be if you were unlucky - “The minibus could have arrived later, and I would have been late.” It is convenient to record this by dividing it into three columns. And conclude: “I was lucky” or “Everything happened in the best way.” Always draw a conclusion - formulate a simple, short and understandable “slogan” for your brain, which will become its new optimistic automatism. The shorter and clearer it is, the easier it will take root. What happened What was good about it What could have been wrong Conclusion I was waiting for the minibus and it arrived It happened just on time and I had time to get to work The minibus could have arrived later and I would have been late Everything happened in the best possible way…….……