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Martin Seligman - "Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com. Welcome to the Daily Quote, the
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and let's dive into today's
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  quote from Martin Seligman, the founder of positive psychology
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  and one of the leading researchers on optimism and
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  well-being. He once said optimism is a
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  happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good
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  things and good people will be drawn to you.
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  Think about what that means. Seligman isn't saying optimism
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  magically creates good outcomes. He's saying it attracts them.
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  And here's why. People are drawn to optimistic
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  people not because optimists are naive or ignore problems, but
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  because they're energizing to be around.
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  When you're around someone who sees possibilities instead of
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  only obstacles, who believes solutions exist instead of only
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  problems, who moves forward instead of staying stuck, you
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  want to be part of that. Good people are drawn to
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  optimism because they want to build things, solve things,
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  create things. And you can't do that with
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  someone who's convinced everything will fail.
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  Good opportunities are drawn to optimism because people offer
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  opportunities to those who seem capable of executing them.
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  And optimists seem capable because they believe things can
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  work. But here's the mechanism
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  Seligman discovered through decades of research.
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  Optimism isn't just attracting external things, it's changing
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  how you see what's already there.
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  When you're optimistic, you notice opportunities you would
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  have missed. You take actions you would have
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  avoided. You connect with people who you
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  would have ignored. The magnet isn't just pulling
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  things towards you, it's making you more receptive to what's
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  already available. Pessimists and optimists can be
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  in the same room with the same opportunities, surrounded by the
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  same people. A pessimist sees nothing.
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  The optimist sees possibilities everywhere.
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  Same room, different magnet, different results.
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  So here's the question. What kind of magnet are you
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  right now? Are you attracting good things
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  and good people, or are you repelling them with pessimism?
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  Because optimism isn't about ignoring reality.
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  It's about being the kind of person that good things and good
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  people want to be around. Be the magnet.
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  That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.