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Hey, it's Marielle.
You ever have somebody say to you,
just be positive when you're right in the middle of an impossibly hard life moment and it made you want to just punch them in the face?
Well, I'm not trying to get punched.
So today we are not talking about positivity.
We're talking about optimism.
The two words that really come clear to mind when I'm thinking of optimism is resiliency and curiosity.
Deepika Chopra is a behavioral scientist with a doctorate in clinical health psychology,
and her new book is called The Power of Real Optimism.
Now, she says people tend to equate optimism with toxic positivity,
and they say an optimist in today's world must either be naive or ignoring reality.
But when Deepika talks about optimistic people,
she means the ones who are aware of setbacks and roadblocks.
But they see these things as temporary and something that they can overcome,