"Pessimist people will have a harder time dealing with crisis"

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Taking advantage of the economic spiralling being a constant subject worldwide, I'm going to portray the unique solution to fight against it by oneself: to be optimist.

Why do I say this? Have I become rich by being optimist? Well, not yet, but that's what Bernabé Tierno, Spanish psychologist, educationalist and a successful author, explains in a recent interview in El Mundo.

He defends the positive psychology: "[the crisis] will be taken over by those who don't allow the complaint and instead make everything that's on their hands. Those affected have to work in whatever they can, any thing before staying at home moaning" says the writer.

Tierno talks about how the pessimist people will have a harder time dealing with the crisis "and they are not precisely a minority. They're those who spend the day blaming everyone. I call them toxic persons. And that doesn't mean to blame our politicians shouldn't be done. There's no excuse for the fact that anybody bounds to accept the mistakes".

To the question if the society, installed in a well-being state, will be able to survive its bankruptcy, he adds he's been interviewing nonagenarian people for three years now: "They answer proposing tranquility, that everyone searches for a personal happiness, that is, with what they already own. (...) It's been demonstrated that who hasn't have to go through difficulties is not ready for life. Another key against the crisis is the humor."
Following this, Bernabé Tierno points out that it's neccesary to adapt the expectations to the new reality "and even so, there'll be who will be unable to assume it and will suffer because of it. These are those that live always worried for what people will say".

Obviously, happiness and humor won't lead us to the money tree, but it's a wise thought to not surrender ourselves to the depression of what we don't have, because, as Bernabé stated in one of his conferences, "the road to the happiness only depends on us".

In any case, the message radiates armony and a calm reaction to the situation ahead of us.