According to researchers at the University of Illinois, the more optimistic a person is about life.
Why is it optimistic, so sleep is so important?
Reason #1 – Optimists are more successful
Martin Seligman is a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania. In the mid-1980s, he produced a style questionnaire that the new salesman at Metropolitan Life had to complete. The answer to the questionnaire made Seligman classify each salesman as more inclined toward optimism or pessimism.
After two years of sales, Seligman compared each salesman’s success with the answers to the questionnaire. What he found was eye-opening – Metropolitan Life salesmen tended to be optimistic, and among the first year of the first year and 50% of pessimists, they tended to be pessimists.
Reason 2 – Optimists live longer
Telomeres are the cap at the end of each chromosome. When your telomeres are untied, the chromosomes spread out and the cells cannot divide to create new cells to replace them.
Many studies have found a direct correlation between telomere length and life expectancy. The longer the telomeres, the longer you live.
Becca Levy is a professor of epidemiology/psychology at Yale School of Public Health. She is also the lead author of a well-known study on telomeres. Levy found that those who are more optimistic and positive have longer telomeres and better health.
Reason #3 – Optimism Maximizes Brain Performance
When you get into pessimism, negative or severe stress, you close half of the brain’s exterior extra cortex, the brain’s executive command and control center.
Have you ever read stories about individuals who had “shocked” in some kind of catastrophic accident? In many stories, police and medical first responders arriving at the scene often describe the accident victim as being in a zombie state. They are unpopular, unresponsive, and like zombies. Their consciousness seems to have been enclosed in the surrounding world.
When you face a life-and-death situation, the subconscious battle or flight process (limbic system and brainstem) can control your brain. It does this by offline and taking the front extra cortex offline.
- Your visual cortex is closed so what your eyes see is not treated by the occipital lobe.
- Your hearing is off and all you hear is noise.
- Your entire awareness of the outside world has entered a shutdown mode.
- You will ignore everything around you – the external environment.
There are good reasons. In very stressful events, your mind and concentration are deliberately reduced so you can focus on one thing – Survive.
Pessimism causes stress and anxiety, triggering a watered version of “Fight O Flight”. When your brain CEO is the ex-extra cortex, automatic control will decrease when pessimistic and your attention and consciousness will become narrower. Due to this narrow focus and awareness, you will ignore solutions to problems and opportunities.
Those who remain permanently negative or pessimistic, struggle financially, stay working, fight relationships, have little chance to live a life because they cannot fully deploy the power of the pre-extra cortex to allow them to see solutions and opportunities to help them solve problems and create a happy life.
Reason #4 – Optimism is contagious
In a Farmington Heart Study that analyzed two decades of data, lead study author James Fowler found that emotions such as optimism spread across your social networks—they infect everyone in your inner circle, including your children. This optimism is contagious and positively impacts sales prospects, investors, employees, and everyone who does business with you.
Reason #5 – 54% of the wealthy habits in the study said that their optimistic prospects are crucial to their success and therefore their ability to accumulate wealth.
Reason 6 – Optimism produces wealth and pessimism produces poverty
A paper published in the May 2015 Journal of Personality and Psychology, which studied more than 68,000 Americans and Europeans, found that pessimism can lead to poverty.
Research points out that pessimism makes you wary of trusting others. It goes on to argue that when you see people with pessimistic lights – untrustworthy, selfish and deceptive, you are unlikely and willing to rely on others.
Those who are the most pessimistic in their studies also happen to be the poorest. The study concluded that if you keep trusting others, you will have a low income now and in the future.
On the contrary, those optimistic people in the study trust more about others and earn more than pessimists.
Pessimists miss out on opportunities because they are unlikely to seek help and are less likely to work with others.
Reason #7 – Optimists have higher risk tolerance
In 1998 and 2001, BL Frederickson conducted two studies that measured cognitive ability and risk tolerance. He found that those who are more optimistic have greater risk tolerance.
Elon Musk is perhaps the best example of a modern day for someone willing to take huge risks, which makes everything he has listed as all of this. He surpassed the highest optimism to make this possible. He used it to infect everyone he came into contact with. Investors, employees, governments and even NASA are infected with Musk’s unlimited optimism. Everything is at great risk when working with Musk. Otherwise they will find unbearable risks.
Reason #8 – Sleep improves long-term memory
The hippocampus and the anterior frontal cortex send signals thousands of times during the sleeping part. Like a carefully choreographed dance, this process transforms short-term memory into long-term memory.
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