I'm curious if any members have worked with Martin Seligman's Learned Optimism quiz? It's 48 questions and you can find it by searching and looking for a link at Stanford.

The key to the whole thing is how we explain what we go through. Optimists generally take credit for the good things and feel they apply across their whole lives; they also limit their ownership of bad things to a one-time event in a specific life domain.

I think mastering the optimistic explanation "on the fly" could be an interesting project. Its a species of self-talk.

Comments welcome.