You may have seen a variation of an emotion wheel (aka:feeling wheel). The above photo is a version from Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions https://positivepsychology.com/emotion-wheel/. When Brian and I moved our series from posts on gratitude to posts on optimism, we started with a working definition of optimism. Moving from gratitude to optimism reminded me ofContinue reading “Connecting Optimism”
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Another Small Tweak
As I was writing my last post, A Little Tweak, I thought about the Truman quote some more and pondered its meaning further, in light of the wrench metaphor. I came up with a new insight about the quote as a result. It’s like a gift that kept on giving, when you find new pearls of wisdom from things we already know.

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