Note: This is a guest post from Ayo Olaniyan of Discovering Purpose Look at the picture closely: Is the glass half full or half empty? The BBC website published a report Optimistic women ‘live longer’. This was based on a research carried out by a group of US scientists who studied 100,000 women to deduce pessimists had higher blood pressure and cholesterol; optimistic women had a 9% lower risk of developing heart disease and a 14% lower risk of dying from any cause after more than eight years of follow-up. The concept of this post isn’t targeted at women only; … Continue reading 45 Benefits of Optimism