way, you will be positive. If you explain them in a negative way, you will be negative.What Seligman concluded is that optimistic people, when something goes wrong, always explain the event or experience to themselves as though it were a temporary, specific situation, rather than a long-term, general condition. Imagine that you make a sales call and the prospect is not in- terested in what you are selling. It didn’t work out. It was a waste ccc_tracy_10_179-200.qxd 6/23/03 4:16 PM Page 188 188 ➤ CHANGE YOUR THINKING, CHANGE YOUR LIFE of time. If you are a positive person, you will say something like, “Well, it’s just one sales call.” This makes it temporary. You will say, “The customer is probably having a bad day.” This makes it specific. You then say, “I’ll be more successful on the next call
198 LESS IS BEST AND LOSS IS WORST THE CITY OF MESA, ARIZONA, IS A SUBURB IN THE PHOENIX AREA where I live. Perhaps the most notable features of Mesa are its sizable Mormon population-next to Salt Lake City, the largest in the world-and a huge Mormon temple located on exquisitely kept grounds in the center of the city. Although I had appreciated the landscaping and architecture from a distance, I had never been in- terested enough in the temple to go inside, until the day I read a newspaper article that told of a special inner sector of Mormon temples to which no one has access but faithful members of the church. Even potential converts must not see it; how- ever, there is one exception to the rule. For a few days immediately after a temple is newly constructed, non-members are allowed to tour the entire structure, in- cluding the otherwise restricted section.
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