So you have an Optimist, a Pessimist, and a Realist walk into a doctors office wanting to know if they live a ripe old age. The doctor says to the Optimist, “come back next week and let’s discuss it.” Doc tells the Realist to “come back tomorrow and they can hash it out.” Then he turns to the Pessimist and says, “let’s talk fast, while you can walk outta here.”
Seems many of us consider thinking positively helps you to be more successful and to get through life’s hard situations. According to new research positive life vision increases your lifespan. The study was performed at Carnegie Mellon University. One hundred and ninety-three healthy individuals between ages of 18 and 55 were willing to participate in the study. They were given medications containing some kind of flu viruses. Volunteers were evaluated in accordance with their emotional attitude to life –whether positive or negative.
And a 30-year study of 447 people at the Mayo Clinic studied people with optimistic life vision (whatever that is?) and found they had a 50% lower risk to die early than those with pessimistic one. So we can plainly see that a positive attitude, a positive life vision and a sense of humor might play a role in living a longer, healthier life. But there’s more recent research to prove the point.
Posted By: Walker Tisdale
Tuesday, July 10th 2012 at 9:55PM
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