I had such a terrible dang day today. Won the $640,000,000 lottery. Now I’m going to have to pay $300,000,000 in taxes. All my idiot relatives are calling me up, pretending to congratulate me, but I know they just want a hand out. I’ll probably lose my Medicaid now. The wife wants a new car; I just know we’ll get cheated and overspend on a lemon...
Suckiest day in a long time!
Instead of just asking the user to rate their day, make a list of “happy/positive” words, and “depressed/negative” words, and use them to decide the outlook of a day. ;)
So sorry to hear Steve, say let me help you out by taking that $640,000,000 of misery off your hands. Sunrose can have 2 cars :D
Counting P's would be what Martin Seligman would advise. Author of "Learned Optimism" and the branch of Psychology that is call Positive Psychology.
You have a bad event and
how you attribute the cause is distinguishing between Optimism and Pessimism.
The more it is:
Personal, Pervasive and Permanent the more you are a Pessimist and just the opposite goes for attributions to Happy events, the more the happy event is believed to be Personal, Pervasive and Permanent the more Optimistic you are,
To an optimist all bad events are flukes, will never happen again and certainly not MY fault (kinda sounds like Trump) and all good events are normal occurrences, people love Me and there is no reason they should ever stop happening.
Seligman says that Optimists make terrible realists but generally achieve more because they don't give up easily.
BTW Americans don't elect Republicans or Democrats, they elect Optimists.
