Earned Optimism Quotes

“Fear shrank as the week went on. It had not disappeared; Annabel was simply becoming familiar with doing the things it had forbidden. Each coffee, conversation and train journey left something behind that reassurance alone could never have supplied: proof that she had coped.

Each encounter became what Bandura called a mastery experience: direct evidence that Annabel could manage the situation. Confidence is rather unhelpful about arriving in advance. More often, it turns up afterwards carrying the receipts.”
― Ms Annabel Francis, Earned Optimism: Hope, Identity and Being Authentically Yourself