I want you to imagine that you are a 24 year old graduate going for job interviews. In this instance, you are being interviewed by a multinational who takes you to the next stage- completing a range of psychometric assessments followed by an interview with a psychologist.
Imagine if you will, that this psychologist starts his interview with you by saying you are ‘too optimistic’, that you are a ‘Pollyanna’, that ‘you are unrealistic in seeing the world in such as positive light’, claiming there is something really wrong with you.
How would you feel? Well, this scenario happened to me back in the mid 1980s. My sunny, optimistic disposition was deemed a fatal career flaw by this psychologist. WHAT? I was shocked and initially really upset by his analysis. Why was this a problem? What was wrong with me? Then I thought “Well, stuff you. You’re not going to get the better of me. I’m going to carry on being optimistic about the future and find better pathways forward for myself and my career” and the rest is history.
Thanks to ongoing research, we now know a lot more about the power of optimism and its effects on people, teams, businesses and societies.
BEING OPTIMISTIC
I don’t know you, but my team and I, together with Victor Perton, want to see more optimism in Australian businesses, in the media and in our daily lives.
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