Pessimists May Live Longer according to a study done by researchers

[shian]

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Low expectations for a happy future might actually propel you into old age.

Compared with their counterparts with a sunnier outlook, older Germans who are more pessimistic tend to live longer, healthier lives, a group of researchers found.

"Our findings revealed that being overly optimistic in predicting a better future was associated with a greater risk of disability and death within the following decade," researcher Frieder R. Lang, of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, said in a statement. "Pessimism about the future may encourage people to live more carefully, taking health and safety precautions."

Lang's team looked at the 1993 to 2003 results of an annual German survey of tens of thousands of people, ages 18 to 96. These polls included information about the participants' health as well as their ratings of how satisfied they were with their lives and how satisfied they thought they would be in five years, on a scale of 0 to 10.

Among those 65 and older, 43 percent of the respondents had underestimated what their future life satisfaction would be five years after the initial survey, the researchers said. Thirty-two percent overestimated it and 25 percent had predicted accurately.

Each notch of overestimation was linked to a 9.5 percent increase in the chance a respondent would report a disability and a 10 percent increase in the chance the person would be dead five years later.

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Ha take that you optimistic, scamming motivational speakers.

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[Virtanen]

so what, who wants to be 90 anyway

[LoneWolf_Recon]

There's nothing wrong with optimism, its just when you start be naive is when it becomes a problem in your life.

[W00tbeer1]

Guess a majority of the LoL community is living a long life. First Blood - "gg mid fed" "surrender at 20"