An optimist confidently and easily finds a better position while pessimists keep blaming circumstances for their recurring struggle and plight. It's not you that finds yourself in the midst of an economic recession or in boom times, it's your attitude wrapped up in your body that's in the midst of a economic recession or in boom times. An optimist will prosper and thrive no matter how bad things are, while a pessimist will struggle no matter how good things are. Optimists are magnetized to attract loving, caring, supportive, optimistic people wherever they are under all circumstances, while repelling critical, non-supportive, pessimistic people. Pessimists are magnetized to attract critical, non-supportive, pessimistic people wherever they are under all circumstances, while repelling loving, caring, supportive, optimistic people.
Optimists hang out together with other optimists.
Pessimists hang out together with other pessimists. If you have a bunch of pessimists in your life, guess what that says about you. Optimists do not depend upon luck for their good fortune, because they understand that nothing in the universe happens by luck or accident. Pessimists rip themselves off by erroneously believing and behaving as if they could benefit at the expense of others, thereby not fully accessing the greater potential that optimists naturally access. Optimists don't get pushed out of shape the way pessimists do when obstacles appear, because optimists realize that no obstacle is insurmountable, thereby naturally overcoming obstacles pessimists continue to be stymied by.