Writing assignment 3

Optimism and Reality

I think, When we are in the face of adversity, having optimistic thought is important for success. In particular, having this quality is necessary for every organaization. Optimism have the potential to change the discourage adversity.

In fact, my baseball club was helped by introducing this concept. Optimism changed the ominous tide of team.

If I gave opponent a base on balls, our team mate cheerd me by optimistic phrase "It's allright. no problem." This encouragement makes me calm and vigorous. And also, optimism sparking the whole team atmosphere. Only optimistic one phrase can change the outcomes of win and loss. One day in the game, our team were two runs behind the other team in 7 inning. Our team atmosphere was filled with pessimistic thoughts. We were only concerning negatively "We must more than two runs to win." We were so impatient about score. Then, suddenly, someone said that "just two runs!! and we have no less than two innings!! it is easy for us, infact we could get the 3 runs in one inning!!" This thoughts turn negative into positive. And we could come from-behind victory. This is the good example to show effectiveness of optimism.

However, we are not only thinking optimisticlly but also stay in reality. As I said before, we cheer up each other when we are in adversity, but at the same time we dont forget to check the situation of game. We analyze the situstion and consider how to win the game. Just having optimistic view is not enough. Searching practical solutions is necessary for deal with stark reality.

As I mentioned previously, to solve the adversity, we have to acquire the way to look in two directions "optimism and stay in reality" at the same time.