1. 8/30/2014 Unit 1: Success Essential Question: What does it take the be a successful high school student? Today’s Topic: Outlook Objective: Leave today able to use the 3Cs of a positive outlook

2. 4 Habits that will make you successful 1. Grit –being willing to not give up to get what you care about for your future. 2. Growth Mindset –The understanding that with practice, your brain can get better at skills. 3. Outlook

3. What is your outlook? Do you have control over problems? Do problems spread or are they contained? Can the causes for a failure change or are they permenant?

4. Optimistic Outlook: 3Cs Things are: –C hangeable –C ontained –C ontrollable

5. Optimism vs. Pessimism Optimistic Students Source of resiliency among both healthy and ill children Less at risk for depression Higher self worth Higher sense of competence Pessimistic Students Lower self-esteem Greater risk of depression and suicide Peer problems Sydney Ey, et al (2005) Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

6. Can Optimism be Taught? Optimists: Recognize that they can experience a wide range of emotions Understand that moods affect attitudes but mood does not necessarily reflect reality Optimists can be in control of their expression of emotions, in charge of their own emotions.

7. Changing your Mind-Set from Pessimistic to Optimistic Capture what you say. Listen to what you are saying to yourself. Me? Always? Everything? Challenge your inner voice. When thoughts are negative, ask yourself, is there another way to think about this?

8. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. –Winston Churchill Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine. –Ralph Waldo Emerson Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll, the optimist sees the doughnut and the pessimist sees the hole. -Oscar Wilde, Playwright, author

9. In the long run, the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. -Daniel L. Reardon, Writer, poet The average pencil is 7 inches long with just a ½ inch eraser – in case you thought optimism was dead. -Robert Brault, American poet Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. -Colleen Wilcox, poet