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Recognising Possibility in Uncertainty

INSEAD Knowledge Podcast

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The Power of Optimism

Martin Settlegman found that people who fell into the helplessness trap were more likely to fail. He and his colleagues discovered that pessimism and optimism is not something we are born with. When you go into uncertainty, things will go differently than you expected. If you adopt an learned optimism lens, you can diffuse all the negative energy around it.

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