Why are most people so PESSIMISTIC?
The negativity is all around us and it is contagious. Do people just NEED to be negative in order to feel better about themselves?
Whenever I go to seminars there is ALWAYS somebody there who wants to then give their own little mini-seminar on the break or in the restroom telling you why the seminar presenters are all full of crap and why what they are selling just will not work.
Usually these are people who you can tell are not very successful in life. Do they perhaps need to be downers in order to feel better about their own failures in life? I really want to know what others think because I have my own views on this. I’ve attended seminars and presentations by some of the most well known and undeniably successful entrepreneurs in their industry (real estate; Forex investing; Stock Trading; eCommerce Marketing; mail-order; etc.) and these pessimists even say those things about them! I do feel so terribly sorry for the many who never learn that the way to learn how to acquire real wealth is from sitting at the feet of those who have acquired it (and not some professor who earns ,000 a year IF he’s really good.)
Have you had this experience with pessimism -versus- optimism? Are YOU one of these people? If so then please explain WHY you always see the glass as half full rather than half empty. Has this pessimism worked for you?
Excuse me. I mis-typed. I meant to say WHY do you see the glass as half empty? Or …why do you focus more on the negative rather than the positive in a thing. This is the pessimists trademark.
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Okay, first, let’s clear something up. Pessimists are the one’s who see the glass half empty. Optimist’s see it as half full.
Second, a lot of times, people who give seminars are con men. I went to one about how to trade in options, selling put’s and call’s, the whole nine yards. How if you traded in options, it was virtually impossible to lose. And this guy was going to teach us for the low, low price of $30,000.00, for a 6 week course. There was one guy in the audience who asked, wouldn’t it be better to take that 30 thousand dollars and get an undergraduate degree at an accredited college? The speaker notified his goons to shut that guy down.
During our lunch break, I happened to see this person and invited him to lunch with me. But one of the goons had followed the renegade and tried to prevent him from having lunch with me. He claimed that the renegade was "disrupting" HIS customers (me, I suppose). I told Andrew, (the goon) that it was okay, I WANTED to have lunch with him. So he backed down.
I didn’t get into the program. I was just curious about it.
However, there ARE people who are pathologically skeptical. I once mentioned in passing, to some dickwad I used to work with that I knew someone who won a bronze medal in the Olympics, many years ago. This clown goes "unh unh!" As in "no you don’t". Excuse me? He doesn’t know jack shiit about me and he’s suddenly telling me I can’t know anyone who won an olympic medal, because…because why?…because HE doesn’t know anybody himself?
It is because they are looking for an excuse for failing and they feel better about themselves if others are as negative as they are. They’d much rather believe that everything is a "scam" and that anyone trying to teach them something is just out to "get them" and "scam" them out of the little money that they have. I’ve seen this too. They have little to no actual knowledge or experience about anything but yet they have a negative and always pessimistic opinion about any and everything. Especially anything new. Misery loves company.
I DON’T KNOW!!! i have a friend who thinks that our high school sucks ( our hs is in the top 40 in the nation) because "some people dont have to study to pass classes"…like wtf maybe youre just jealous because some people are smart and dont have to study while you have to study your asssss off!?…
i know exactly what you mean.
as for the pessismis versus optimism, id say i’m in between. x]
Perhaps you are pessimism or maybe am a pessimistic person toward others of how they view and feel about you or I. However, pessimism is hidden deeply within all of us and our perception and character feeds on what we see,feel, taste,smell and hear. Therefore, my point is pessimism can also mean one who is mentally deranged. Be aware! that it is sometimes safe to not know the history of another person life or Lifestyle.
That’s funny you should say that… I’m a realist, but I feel like everyone else is an optimist.
All depends what you deem successful – I’d rather have dinner or be stuck in a lift with a moany poor professor than a rich positive thinking bread head – actually my idea of hell – For those of us who want a better more equal society its looking a bit pessimistic. For being able to make money there are winners and losers – Bankers scams pyramid selling the lot they have optimists and pessimists -winners adn losers If you want quality of life rather than riches beyond the dreams of avarice then pessimism is the default setting maybe your pessimist has an overdeveloped social conscience that he cant quiet now that is an achievement. I remember at 21 telling my brother in law it was immoral to join a pyramid scam but easter bunny that he was, he thought that there were no losers and carried on and bankrupted himself and others – it was sadder for those who had children and were sucked in.
I see people tending to be pessimistic because of their real or imagined life experiences. I have probably been too negative in my life at times and too naive at other times. I think the middle ground is probably the best where your money is concerned.
Forex for example has no shortage of "guru’s" who will be glad to take your money in a seminar or training program. You have to do some background and go in with your eyes open before spending your hard earned cash on many of these "get rich quick" programs. I’ve been a victim and finally came out the other side to eventually find an honest mentor.
I know that we can’t let negativity rule our life but we also need to enter any seminar or training with our eyes wide open and know that the "good ship lollypop" doesn’t exist and have both feet on the ground.