
140 brilliant positive psychology
When you are too specific, particular or exact about
something good that you have achieved
When you give credit to fate or luck rather than your ability
or effort.
This is not an invitation to become delusional! As with all things,
the trick is to mitigate the thinking that spirals us downwards
and to reinforce the thinking that spirals us upwards. We just
need to turn the knob appropriately.
brilliant
insight
The research is still varied on the extent to which being more negative and
emotionally distressed before an event affects the responses to an event
but there is enough research