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Thinking of one’s positive to negative ratio as a scale and making the assessment of positive thinking to be anything above 5.1 might be somewhat negative in itself; an acceptance of the average. The positive ratio is simply a matter of looking on the brighter side of the events happening around you. Baby boomers experiencing loss of a serious nature might be expected to view the situation with some sadness. However, as people inch toward older age, a certain talent for finding the gloomy side of even the best news surfaces in people who might previously have been optimists.
The age thing again! The positive negative ratio is affected by it; just as our faculties for everything else dims with age. Psychological articles from Positive Psychology explore the ability to see the better side of a situation and suggest the element of disappointment is a major factor in someone’s ability to find fault and be unable to find the positive aspect; disappointment in general, that is, in terms of failure. A failure to achieve leads to finding the bad side to other events. A man or a woman who has not managed to attain success in their career might begin to fail in other things as a result, leading to a poor positive negative ratio.
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Widows who have been happily married throughout their adult lives and who suddenly lose their husbands to find they have been left financially unstable are often the victims of an unfavorable positive negative ratio. They see their situation as a disappointment; an unfair reward for putting in a great many years as a loyal wife and mother. The reaction is understandable but the effect of low expectations in daily life can lead to a habitual negative outlook alien to baby boomers.
As in so many situations, much of the solution to repairing a poor positive negative outlook is to recognize there is a problem. People rarely see their own behavior as negative and tend to view their critical and pessimistic views as ‘realistic’ or ‘honest’, or the all time favorite; ‘Saying it like it is…’
The result of spending too much time with someone who has a low positive negative ratio can have a lowering effect on others. Baby boomers in an active social circle will notice someone being ‘pulled down’ by the negative experience of being too much in the company of someone else with a toxic attitude to life. It can be wearing and have the effect of squashing a person with even the most positive outlook.
Psychological articles show us that baby boomers on the whole demonstrate a good positive negative ratio performance; the ability to look on the bright side is far more pronounced than the previous generation. The prospect of a generation of elderly party poopers is therefore, thankfully, unlikely. However, certain individual members of the baby boomer community continue to cast doom and gloom everywhere they go. The trick is to flush them out and cheer them up!
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