Ben dwer says, i'm just finishing ut my m p a. In one of my classes, they talked about how optimism is actually an attribute of emotional intelligence and can be learned. As an optimist myself, i'd always considered it more of a part of my personality like extravertor interverted and unteachable. How would someone go about learning and training to be an optimist? And what's the relationship there also? Is there a relationship between happiness and emotional or just like ic intelligence, i feel ti there's some badge of lick. If you're unhappy, it must mean that you know more, and therefore you're smarter.