The Counterintuitive Trait That Will Make You Significantly More Successful

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The Counterintuitive Trait That Will Make You Significantly More Successful

by Shane Snow, Linked In - Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/trait-that-will-make-you-more-successful-2014-8

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The differences between Optimism and Credulity, Skepticism and Pessimism, are subtle. But they're crucial. On their face, credulity seems to be a marker of good faith, a noble value, and skepticism is thought of as grouchy or stubborn. However, here's how the dictionary defines them:

Credulous: having or showing too great a readiness to believe things.

Skeptical: not easily convinced; having doubts or reservations.

When charted by these two dimensions, it's clear that some measure of success and failure can be found in every category:


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[Luminous Animal]

1. Interesting. And love the graph.

[applegrove]

2. Thanks for posting it.

[lumberjack_jeff]

4. Nuns: the epitome of gullible optimists.

My favorite website is hackaday, so hopefully I'm in good company.

[mrdmk]

6. This is the line below the graph

*(Note: I don't intend to downplay the hardship that is clinical depression, re: Quadrant 3. Depression comes with, by definition, an inability to see a better future. You're skeptical of the value of basic things in life including life itself, and that's an incredibly difficult obstacle.)

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. Great, I fall more in line with

'depressed people' than anything else, although with a nod towards 'hackers'.

[tularetom]

5. I don't see how anybody with a functional cerebral cortex can live in the US without being skeptical

And it is definitely a prerequisite if you are a Democrat.

Particularly when you are exposed to the news as reported by our liberal media. If you don't suspect that you are being constantly lied to by the government and by the press, you aren't paying attention.

I'm very optimistic personally, not so much when it comes to the future of the country.