Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty? Choose Wisely for a Long Life
Do you see the glass as half-empty or half-full ? If it's the former, you might want to reconsider. A new survey has found that those having a positive attitude could be evolutionarily advantageous, according to Cornell researchers who simulated generations of evolution in a computational model, newswise.com reports. The web quotes the researchers as saying that these findings offer scientific support to the ancient philosophical insights from China, Greece and India, which encourage cultivating long-term contentment or life satisfaction rather than grasping at the fleeting joy of instant gratification. Hmm. Guess they've met many millennials. “In an evolutionary sense, you have to evaluate your life on the basis of more than what happened just now,” says Shimon Edelman, professor of psychology and a co-author of the study. It took having cancer, for me, to learn to live in the moment. I was very lucky. My cancer was not invasive and here I am, 12 yea...