With new research showing positive thinking could add years to your life, an anxious Mike Rampton seeks advice on how to look on the bright side
, found that optimists lived, on average, five years longer than their less optimistic peers, and were significantly more likely to live past 90.
But, in spite of the future looking less than inviting, not cutting my life short with pessimism would be preferable for myself and my loved ones. So I thought I should try to : could I just decide to start expecting the best? Is optimism an opt-in club? It would be a pretty massive behavioural change affecting my whole outlook on life., to help me on my journey. I explain to him that, for me, optimism has always felt a bit nonsensical — expecting things to go swimmingly all the time feels naive to the point of irresponsibility.
Dr Twumasi says there is a difference between optimism and blindly assuming everything is going to go brilliantly. “I would generally define optimism as, in a situation where a positive and negative outcome are both likely, to expect the favourable outcome,” he says. “There’s still a groundedness and rationality to it.He explains that assuming everything will go brilliantly when it is very unlikely to do so is more in the realms of magical thinking than optimism.
One thing going in my pessimistic favour is that Dr Twumasi does say of the research that the links between optimism and health aren’t necessarily causational — there could be all sorts of confounding variables that might mean people who were more likely to live longer were also more likely to have positive attitudes. I’m grateful for his attempt at reassurance but I still feel I could do with a dose more optimism in my life.
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