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9 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 18 October 2015 12:08PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 20 October 2015 02:58:11PM *  1 point [-]

Optimisim/Pessimism is an one-dimenional way of looking at it. I don't think it's helpful. If you focus a lot on doing gratitude excercises you are doing positive thinking but that doesn't create false expectations.