O, The Oprah Magazine One of my defining moments came in the third grade—the day a book report I’d turned in earned my teacher’s praise and made my classmates whisper, “She thinks she’s so smart.” For too many years after that, my biggest fear was that others would see me as arrogant. In some […]
By Tim Jarvis O, The Oprah Magazine Cheer up. Be happy. Find the silver lining. Smile. If you didn’t know any better, you might say we’re a country that preaches optimism. But some 30 to 35 percent of Americans employ a calculated form of negative thinking—called defensive pessimism—that can lead to very positive results, according […]
