Davies Guttmann, the author of The Power of Positivity, explains how people can be in the exact same circumstances and react totally differently. He writes, Imagine two students who receive the same poor grade on an exam. The first student thinks, “I’m such a failure! I always do poorly in this subject. I can’t do anything right!” The second student thinks, “This test was difficult! Oh well, it’s just one test in one class. I tend to do well in other subjects.” These students are exhibiting two types of what psychologists call “explanatory styles.” Explanatory styles reflect three attributions
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