Develop personal optimism
Source: https://www.york.ac.uk/students/support/success-at-york-toolkit/optimism/personal/ Parent: https://www.york.ac.uk/students/support/success-at-york-toolkit/optimism/
Personal optimism involves seeing your experiences as providing opportunities to develop personal skills.
In other words, how can you develop personally from what happens to you?
Videos
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How to be optimistic during challenges
In this video, Brian Tracy talks about how you can learn to be more optimistic when facing challenges, in turn improving your overall wellbeing during hardships.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1hYYIMVl_I
Video
The Power of belief: mindset and success
Eduardo Briceño, the founder of Mindset Works, discusses how when students take on the mindset that abilities are not fixed and are instead developed, they are more confident in approaching challenges and readily adopt learning-oriented behaviours.
Video
Growth versus fixed mindset
This video talks through the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset, and hoe you can change yours.
Podcasts
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is a podcast that celebrates the things that haven’t gone right. Every week, a new interviewee explores what their failures taught them about how to succeed better.
Every weekday morning, this podcast allows you to take a few moments to step out of the internal chatter and external noise. It encourages you to pause and reflect to consider what brings us together in this shared human condition and how we can live a life that best reflects our limitless potential.
Further reading
Bouncing back from life's challenges (NHS)
Next steps
Now you have explored resources to help with developing a stronger sense of personal optimism, the next step is to complete our activities to help you set some goals.