If there’s one single characteristic that’s carried me through every terrible date, bitter break-up, sleeping with my ex, and trying my hardest not to give up on this elusive thing called love, it’s ...

If you're a pessimist, you can vault yourself into a worst-case scenario in a nanosecond and immediately forget how to be happy. Negativity may appear to be a great defense mechanism: If you keep your ...

They see the wallet half full. The power of positivity might seem like hocus pocus, but having an optimistic outlook could literally benefit one’s bank account, according to a sunny study published in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Liz Kislik covers leadership, team dynamics and success at work. The optimist’s general stance, says Paul-Choudhury, is: “We can ...

Warren Buffett calls it the Methuselah Effect: the financial advantages of a long life, a high rate of return, and as Buffett wrote in his 1965 Buffett Partnership letter, “a combination of both ...

It seems like all of the self-help industry is complicit in encouraging everyone to have a positive outlook and to grow their optimism. Having a “sunny disposition,” or positive affect, may go a long ...

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”—Winston Churchill Optimism can be defined as “the extent to which people hold generalized ...

Bill Gates has issued some pretty big warnings in recent years — about the next pandemic or avoiding a "climate disaster" — but the billionaire says he's actually very optimistic about the future.