I am a glass half emptied kind of person. Have been for as long as I can remember. It's a family trait.
Although this is the way I am I try very much to look at the glass as half full. But it is hard for me to do.
I really wasn't sure about this book when I first read the information about it. Could someone like me really learn how to be more optimistic? I really doubted that.
In one part of the book Dr. Seligman writes about the things that will normally go through a pessimistic person's mind when something doesn't go the way it was suppose to go. At this point in the book I actually laughed because I had said those things many different times, in many different settings.
He goes on to talk about ways you can train yourself to overcome these thoughts and try to be more optimistic when these things occur.
My first thought after that was "Eek." Since reading the book I have tried several different times to put in play some of the things he talks about. Sometimes they have worked, other times they have failed. However where I once thought that a glass half empty person could never change, I now realize that they can. It won't happen over night but with the help of some of the things in this book you can change your way of thinking and see that glass more full then empty.