In the Face of Adversity

The importance of resilience
by Ron Breazeale

The Way We Explain Things

By Ron Breazeale, Ph.D. on April 1, 2011 in In the Face of Adversity

We learn to explain the things that happen to us in this world primarily by listening to and observing how others explain the world.  Our "explanatory style," as Marty Seligman, Ph.D. has labeled it, can determine whether our perspective is one of being an optimist or a pessimist. Read More

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • You may quote other posts using [quote] tags.

More information about formatting options

Subscribe to In the Face of Adversity

Ron Breazeale, Ph.D., is the author of Duct Tape Isn’t Enough: Survival Skills for the 21st Century as well as the novel Reaching Home.

more...

In the Face of AdversityRecent Posts

Students continue to be bullied on a daily basis because they are different.
Free will: a blessing and a curse.
Mood, beliefs, attitudes, and values play a significant role in willpower.
What is this elusive thing called willpower?
To adopt a psychology of plenty, we change our thinking.
More of In the Face of Adversity blog

Current Issue

The High Art of Handling Problem People

How to handle difficult people.