Real Time Resilience

Optimism

• Dismissing the grain of truth
• Minimizing the situation
• Rationalizing or excusing one's contribution to a problem

Optimism

It is an internal skill used to shut down counterproductive thinking

When your thoughts are distracting you from an immediate task

Respond to your counterproductive thoughts in the heat of the moment by providing evidence against the thought by generating a more optimistic way of seeing the thought.