Encore - Waiting, worrying and dealing with uncertainty, with Kate Sweeny, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
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Optimism Protects You From Worrying
Being an optimist, having a positive outlook on the world, protects you from worrying to optimist worry less than pessimists. In fact, it's one of the rare areas in psychology where it's pretty hard to find a downside to that kind of personality trait. Does worrying level off with age? I mean, there are a lot of negative characteristics that many people have that as you get older and we always talk about how the baby boomers, the older folks are.
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