Depressive Realism vs Delusional Optimism

Published in Living Now Magazine April 2012

A few points courtesy of 'The Optimistic Child' by Martin Seligman PhD

“- Depressed people are accurate judges of how much skill they have, whereas non-depressed people think they are more skilful than others think them to be (80% of American men think they are in the top half of social skills)

- Non-depressed people remember more good events than actually happened and forget more of the bad events.

- Depressed people are accurate about both.

- Non-depressed people are lopsided about their beliefs about success and failure: if rewards occur - they claim the credit, the rewards will last and they're good at everything; but if it was a failure, you did it to them, it's going away quickly, and it was just this one little thing.

- Depressed people are even handed about success and failure."

Which brings me to my point - would you rather be a depressed realist or a delusional optimist?

And if so bet you want to know how to do it? Be delusional that is?

Consider it out from a 'Being' perspective