Practicing Realistic Optimism - Roundtable

This Roundtable explores the 'Practicing Realistic Optimism' podcast. A brief summary begins the Roundtable and covers the following ideas: that our mindsets largely determine our experience of reality; that what we pay attention to, and how we pay attention, largely determine our experience; using the model R + M = E (Reality plus Mindset equals Experience) the importance of using our values and higher purposes to direct attention is suggested; and strategies for more optimistic and helpful mindsets are summarised. In the Roundtable the following topics are explored: how to coach someone to be more optimistic by editing and reframing their language; how interpersonal conflict can stem from different mindsets relative to the same reality; how some people may be predisposed from birth to be more resistant to mindset change; and 'traffic karma' - how we, by patient and repeated application of the 2 conditions test, can develop equanimity and thereby be more free from everyday angst.