Optimism bias

Top Ten lessons learned in FW 311 FW311 course encouraged healthy lifestyle changes and prevent burn out from life’s anxieties. For past four months FW311 delivered array of literature and lessons. I want to share the top ten lessons I appreciated and learned. The first top ten lessons acquired from FW311 is the importance of applying self-care techniques. Second lesson is the importance of develop a theory to produce motivation to put forth effort in lifestyle transformation. Third, lesson…

Oliver Burkeman’s article, “Happiness is a Glass Half Empty” has an interesting take on how optimism leads to unhappiness. Burkeman opened his argument with a very strong example of the amount of failure there is in the America with GfK’s Custom Research North America, or better known as “The Museum of Failed Products”. He then went on to use Ethos, Logos, and Pathos to appeal to the reader about a more effective method of gaining happiness and value in life. His tone and use of language also…

could not tell what is my strengths and weakness until I took the VIA Survey of Character Strengths under this website, (https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu). As the result, I got my top five strengths and they are the following: (1) hope, optimism, and future-mindedness, (2) perspective wisdom, (3) fairness, equity, and justice, (4) self-control and self-regulation and (5) appreciation of beauty and excellence. Those five are all mix of strengths that I believed that I can apply to my…

Positive illusions are unrealistic, biased attitudes that individuals have about themselves and towards other individuals, normally close friends or family members. Positive illusions is “a perception that represents what is perceived in a way different from the way it is in reality. An illusion is a false mental image or conception which may be a misinterpretation of a real appearance or may be something imagined. It may be pleasing, harmless or even useful (Stein, 1982, p 662). The more…

mainly by saying this about officials: “They are not, however, immune to human psychology, and that’s where we think the explanation for home team bias resides” (157). Aspects of all sports were put to the test, and it is really hard to argue with the results they came up with. The statistical analysis, in this case, does an accurate job of pin-pointing the bias in each sport and it is safe to say that the conclusion is…

This world has a cultural bias that has spread land to land into the minds and hearts of almost every person. This bias is hurting everyone, and forcing a sense of false optimism and blinding us to the truth. This bias says that people are at their own personal fault for not being happy and it is killing the varied emotions that have grown through evolution to help the human species survive. The idea that a person should be happy, simply because another person is worse off is hurting everyone.…

ability to stay active and keep mentally sharp throughout the deployment and redeployment operations. Sergeant Major can use positive psychology techniques and Military Resilience Training (MRT) like the hunt for the good stuff, problem-solving, and optimism can be critical for helping…

While, scientists are depicted as cold, analytical beings there are still human. Being human is not being perfect. Even they come in with a certain amount of bias when conducting research. Optimistically, they are the experts and masters of their fields, but we should never fully trust in scientific theories to be fact. Over the past hundred years, we have come to know that many studies that were seen as reputable and unwavering are now debunked. With this realization in mind going forward…

Tali Sharot “The Optimism Bias” “Getting along well with others.” Is the first reason mitigating the optimism bias would be beneficial to people because not everyone is better than someone else. If you were expecting something and it not happen you will wait until next time it happen to gain it, if your were not expecting…

told this in any of these situations? Would you being happy, simply because you have it better than someone else? After all, someone has it worse. Our world has a cultural bias that has spread land to land into the minds and hearts of almost every person. This bias is hurting everyone, and forcing a sense of false optimism and blinding us to the…