Postive outlook delivers success.

I read somewhere recently that positive people are far more likely to be successful. I wish I could remember the details because it was fascinating. A study was done by looking at the authenticity of the smile in school photo's - apparently there is a muscle in every persons face that just cannot lie. If you are truly happy this muscle moves - it adds the glint to your eyes. Those who were authentically happy in school photo's - were far more likely to be successful twenty years on.

I know that ever since I won the 'jelly bean in a jar guessing game' at the age of eight at primary school I have thought I was a lucky person. And my luck continues. Therefore when I read this quote sent to me from my friend JC... I rather liked it.

    "Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."
    Samuel Ullman (1840-1924, Educator, Writer and Poet)


If you know the source of this research of more about it please touch base... Thanks.

Comments
Thanks, I enjoyed reading your blog.

Another great luck quote - “I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the luckier I get” Thomas Jefferson

So true.
# Posted By Alice Henderson | 9/4/08 10:31 AM
Here is a reference to the study by Dacher Keltner and LeeAnne Harker

http://www.mindpub.com/art458.htm

And here is something for fun (Here is the challenge to better 17 out of 20)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/survey...
# Posted By David | 9/4/08 4:02 PM
Martin E. P. Seligman writes about optimism and its linkages with success (also with combating terminal diseases) in Learned Optimism. It also has a quick test that you can use to assess your "hope" factor. Optimism and success are definitely linked
# Posted By Gauri Maini | 9/8/08 2:17 PM
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