Sean D. Francis

From this blog’s previous entry, I know that posture does have a biological effect on the human body.  Certain postures associated with ‘being in power’ actually create more testosterone in the body while decreasing the hormone associated with stress – cortisol.  As irrational as it may seem, this means if a person is lacking confidence [...]

Why does Friday get all the love? I still have to go to work on Friday.  The only difference between Friday and Monday is I’m looking forward to the weekend on Friday.  Even if I have a bad day on Friday, I still get the weekend.  So the real difference between TGIF and TGIM is [...]

It is time to jump into the way back machine and visit an article written in 2003 about pessimism. The Positive Side of Pessimism by Kathleen Mitchell touches upon similar themes I’ve explored here. Kathleen writes: When you see the world through a pessimistic lens, it’s usually because you’ve been hurt or discouraged and want [...]

Have you ever wanted something so much it seemed inevitable that you would get it? A recent study conducted by Emily Balcetis and David Dunning and published in a paper called Wishful Seeing analyzed people’s perception in relation to their desires.  When estimating distance to something they really want, people general believed the object was [...]

25 Things a Pessimist Should Try Before They Die This is an older article but I found some of these things to be kind of intriguing. Some of these are tongue-in-cheek or apply to only the extreme paranoid pessimists, but here are a few that kind of made me smile. 1. Get out of bed [...]

Pessimists are people too and deserve the same respect as everyone else. Okay, that isn’t as great a rallying cry as I thought it would be.  In life, there are people who will be pessimistic and people who will be optimistic.  You and I will end up working with some of these people.  Optimists, while [...]