I found it fascinating too, but I think there's another side to the coin. I'm sure if there are parts of the brain that are inactive when an optimist recieves criticism, then i'm sure there are parts of the brain that are inactive when a pessimist recieves some sort of positive inspiration.
I just finished a class in information analyses, and they taught us how to organize groups of people for brainstorming sessions. You have to seperate your 'creative' thinkers from your 'analytic' thinkers. Otherwise every idea the creative thinkers come up with will get shot down immediately. But at the same time, you have to take the end result of the creative thinkers ideas and present it to the analytic thinkers for a reality check. In general, about 80-90% of the ideas will be destroyed. but the 10-20% that makes it is usually where the most significant changes and development comes from. Without the creative thinkers, the development would never occur. Without the pessimists, the 80% of ideas that were worthless would've sucked the life out of everyone trying to support the plan. I guess in other words we could say that pessimists/optimists are no different than left/right brain people. Both a part of the same whole. But most people don't realize that, and that's where we come up with terms like "hippie" or "asshole", (optimist/pessimist respectively), each trying to get everything to revolve around their point of view instead of knowing their place and seeing it for what it is. seekliberation > Fascinating. Thanks for the find, and for posting > it here. It explains a great deal about True > Believerism and cult apologetics, and well, about > pretty much everything. > > I just loved the phrase, "frontal lobes going on > strike in the face of unwelcome information." > That just nails it. Did you notice, for example, > that no one else followed up on your post but me? > Says a lot, doesn't it. :-) >
