This document discusses maintaining optimism and resilience when pursuing goals or starting a business. It recommends being self-aware of your level of optimism on a scale of 1 to 10 and managing optimism cycles to avoid becoming overly pessimistic or delusional. True success is not correlated with extreme optimism or pessimism, but rather with connecting future plans to current reality through strategies like mental contrasting and implementation intentions. Maintaining balance and perspective is important to persisting towards goals without taking failures or setbacks too seriously.

1. INSPIRATION WITHIN REASON
1 Be self-aware
2 Manage the optimism cycle
3 Be happy now
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Executive Coach and
Entrepreneur.

2. On a scale of 1 to 10 how optimistic you are?
Pessimist Balanced Optimist Delusional
Seeing every possible
obstacle.
Behavior: Stoping.
Optimism scale
1 to 10
1-3 4-7 8-10 >10
Seeing the main
obstacles but also
having positive outlook.
Behavior: Managing
Being able to
experience how it will
look like when we
succeed.
Behavior: Immovable
optimist
Entrepreneur. If I can
visualize it so easily
than it must be less
difficult to accomplish
it.

3. Starting your own
business?
"YOU JUMP OFF A CLIFF AND YOU ASSEMBLE
AN AEROPLANE ON THE WAY DOWN."
REID HOFFMAN

4. Entrepreneur
DELUSIONAL
OPTIMISM
FAILURE
WHY?
WHAT THEN?

5. Resilience
vs.
Synthetic happiness

6. Not seeing it as it is.
SYNTHETIC
HAPPINESS

7. Resilience factors:
Surviving (ability to manage life stressors and
continue to pursue and do well in the face of
adversity).
Thriving (doing what matters most--enhancing,
optimizing your well being).

8. There is no correlation between
optimism and pessimism and true
success. So what does have?

9. MENTAL CONTRASTING WITH
IMPLEMENTATION
INTENTIONS
GABRIELLE OETTINGEN
Connecting future and reality.

10. persist
but don't take it too
seriously

11. Two most important
words:
love and balance.

12. Thank you!