"Crying out for change"
My co-worker currently is reading Martin Seligman's book, Learned Optimism. There's a quiz in it, to determine where you are on the scale of pessimism versus optimism. Of course I already know I'm a pessimist by nature, though I prefer to think of myself as a realist. LOL.
But Stanford U has the test on-line, adapted from his book:
http://www.stanford.edu/class/msande271/onlinetools/LearnedOpt.html
My co-worker is moderately pessimistic, but check out my results (you'll have to enlarge the jpg):
I'm laughing myself silly at the moment, just at the wording. "Moderately hopeless." "Very low self-esteem." "Great pessimism." And my overall score of -10, which equals "very pessimistic."
But the one that cracks me up is my "Total Bad Score": "Crying out for change."
Of course I've not read the book, but somehow I don't think I should find this so funny.
BTW, you can find an outline of the book here:
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Actually this quiz cheered me up - thank you! LOL!!
Take care
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Interesting because I didn't agree with many of the options at all.
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And so Kim, just how are you crying out for change?!? :)
The options seemed sort of skewed to me. So many gave you the option of blaming yourself for the situation or offering a rationalization or excuse. Well not much of a choice there if you are being honest and realistic.
But I still like to do quizzes like that, I find them fun, and I still think the "crying out for change" is hilarious.
I think all these tests are ridiculous... So many of the answers I would actually use weren't there....
It reminds me of phrases like 'a little pregnant' or what did I hear recently, oh yes, 'legitimate rape'...