Offer advice and find good in everything. Have an optimistic personality and an opportunistic mental frame of mind. Be complimentative and kind. Nor was it to reminisce about my grandpas. How about how I plan to retire by 40? Thanks for this post! Hi Lisa! Thanks for stopping in! I really loved this post, Serena. I, too, am a very positive person and get a LOT of negativity thrown my way….. I am so sorry that you received such a negative response from your income report.
Keep up the good work!! Thanks for stopping by! I saw the angry comments when you had posted your blogging success. I see that as jealousy which is not a good look for anyone.
I say keep up the great work, I think you will do great with blogging! Hi Kaylee! Thank you for your kind words! Your blog is awesome and love mingling with you in groups! What an interesting and educational family story! I agree it is up to us and us only to choose whether to be happy or grumpy, do what we like doing or what others think we are supposed to be doing. Great job on your blogging adventure!
Love It. Keep up the good work. People will always have something to say. Thanks for sharing your stories! Thanks Diana! Love this post, keep up the great work! I wanted to run to a different cashier. Or a different department store.
She had created a full life, was recently married and expecting. She was confident, upbeat, grateful and positively happy. Her beaming made me squirm. I wanted to run and bury my head in a pillow and cry over her good fortune, or more specifically, over the lack of mine. The first type is the Externally Happy Person. Schweitzer: We looked at how annoying people found it, and we were expecting to find that people found it more annoying than they did. So, that contrast could be a very useful tool.
The reality is the studies that we did were mostly in North America with very small samples from abroad. I think if we were to go abroad to Germany or northern European countries, we might find even more extreme results because people who are very happy might seem particularly naive in those contexts.
Maybe American-level happiness might strike others as very naive. Knowledge Wharton: Explain why these are also people that tend to shelter themselves from negative information. Are they doing it because they want to build a wall around their world of happiness?
They believe that the very happy person is just not paying close attention to the world around them. Knowledge Wharton: Some of this data has to be interesting from a business perspective. It probably can have an economic impact on the success of a business.
Schweitzer: Part of the way I think about it is there are some people who are very upbeat, very happy, who believe that happiness is going to be motivating and inspiring and attractive. Some of that is true, but as leaders we need to also be quite mindful of the fact that when we exude a great deal of happiness, we may also need to address concerns about how wise we are about the world. Knowledge Wharton: This really has an effect for managers of a company or those moving up the ladder to the C-suite.
Think about managers as they get promoted and evaluated, how wise or how naive they are, and also as we think about sales force. Knowledge Wharton: Does it signal anything about our culture as it is right now? Now, just in time for the holiday's cheery togetherness vibe, science has a fresh clue as to why permanently happy people can be so annoying.
But, she also tends to overestimate her powers of empathy and is actually worse than others at detecting negative emotions. To arrive at these findings, Devlin's team evaluated day-to-day happiness levels of adult volunteers, who also self-evaluated their ability to empathize with others. Then, participants watched a series of videos of people delivering speeches — some about negative topics, some about positive ones. The speech-givers had previously rated their emotional states at different points throughout their speeches, and as participants watched the speeches, they recorded what they thought the speech-givers were feeling as they spoke.
Finally, participants' ratings were compared with the ratings given by the speech-givers. As it turns out, participants with the positive-emotion trait — the "permanently happy" participants — were not as good as other participants at detecting downward shifts in emotion.
But, they were better at detecting upward emotional shifts.
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