Human beings generally tend to live life naturally, it means that there are usually moments or stages that man goes through in which he feels discouraged, but what happens if that discouragement becomes a habit, of Bad thoughts and non-objective behaviors, when we go through painful moments and we face these types of situations, those same will determine how we will face life, if with optimism or pessimism.
By clinging to certain behavior, it will determine our way of acting and seeing life, so that if in a difficult situation we do not rescue the good, and we focus on seeing that situation in a non-positive way, and we cling to negative ideas, we talk about pessimistic behavior.
In the same way, already focusing on pessimistic behavior, the human is locked in a series of ideas from which he does not rescue any objectivity but rather that they believe that everything that happens to them is due to bad luck, that they will always go wrong, that Nothing works, that everything is a failure, that nothing matters, and by not overcoming this, those same thoughts tend to take over the behavior, making them isolated from their social environment, and acquiring distrust and discouragement for everything they try perform.
Pessimism
Tendency that maintains the dominance, absolute or relative, in human existence, of evils over goods. Tendency to see the negative plane of events. Pessimistic etc.
Conduct
Psych. Particular form of human and animal behavior consisting of the reactions and attitudes produced by a given stimulus or situation.
(Schopenhauer) The essence of man is the will and the essence of the will is the tendency to an object, that is, desire, therefore man is always desiring something and never achieves full satisfaction, that is why he is unhappy.
People installed in pessimism tend to have certain behaviors of negativity, they lose interest in the objectives or goals they once had. This can be due to unpleasant experiences that they lived and this leads to total disappointment, by not carrying out the plans, goals and not achieving what they set out to do, they see life differently, by not facing their own problems and By not trying to find a solution, they begin to act with distrust towards life, and they may even change their personal image, for a different one from the one they carried, that change can be reflected in their person and they change their regular habits; many of these people begin to isolate themselves from their friends and family, they become mistrustful of themselves,but they see it in a normal way when in reality it is not. The pessimist does not care what happens in society or in his environment, he sees everything in a skeptical way. It could be said that they are not interested in their own behavior, they see everything in a negative way.
Pessimists tend to be afraid to make decisions, they do not feel sure of themselves, they do not have the will to improve, they have negative thoughts, as well as they lack self-esteem, vision towards the future and improvement.
For them, life is a word that contains its meaning in nothingness, or in the endless number of purely human ideas. Why to speak of the real is to speak of the quantum world of intrinsic uncertainty, thus merely human pathologies are.
As a particular case of the above, the existence of the self is a certain subjective fact, of which there is no doubt. However, its conceptualization as something external or through its relationship with the rest of the objects of the Universe produces a description of the self that, because it is objective, is susceptible to error. That is, when one observes oneself, not when one establishes and tests objective hypotheses about the nature of oneself as if it were an external object, but simply when one observes oneself, one obtains an certainty of your observation. "
Now, Watson, the founder of behaviorism, believed that by controlling stimuli in the environment, you could even shape people's character in the desired direction. It is enough to conveniently change these external factors to obtain the desired behavior in an individual.
The great mistake of this "theory" that psychology tries to give objectivity is not to realize that it is not the stimuli that determine human action and behavior, but our beliefs, thoughts and value judgments. In other words: it is the interpretation that the human being gives to the received stimuli that will determine his response. The human being is not a passive agent who is influenced by the environment without reciprocity.
The ER (stimulus-response) paradigm presents a mechanistic logic within which man is denied all his autonomy, all capacity to generate his own behaviors and all possibility of giving meaning to his action.
"The truth is the greatest lie of humanity, the lie is the most dire truth in life, but hope is the perfect acronym for love and humility…"
A pessimistic thought, when summing up everything in the word hope, knowing that it is just a stereotypical logo of man's thought…
However, for this he stressed again by stating that everything depends on the way of seeing life, on the criteria of each person, the worldview of each individual.
Many people have the idea that the pessimist is the person who sees everything wrong, and from a certain point it is true, however, just as that is true, it is also true that a pessimist is just a person who has a focus: of and towards life. However, this does not mean that a pessimist does not enjoy life and existence.
Now, to speak of pessimism in the conduct of man is to simplify the existence of the same in a conduct to extension. We could value it as a symptom of depression, as a way of expressing disappointment towards life, it is a way of reproaching the world for the existence of being. The pessimist is in a state of hopelessness, disappointment, lives in mistrust of himself, usually they are people who present a mood of sadness and demoralization.
"Arthur Schopenhauer He wonders about the essence of knowledge in his masterpiece, The world as will and representation and when wondering about the essence of knowledge he has two alternatives, one is to take a pre-metaphysical attitude unconcerned by the anthological character of the subject and the object or other metaphysics that is interested in the anthological character of the object and the subject. "
The author we are dealing with will acquire a metaphysical attitude and this can manifest itself in three different ways, namely: realism, idealism, or phenomenalism. The first two metaphysical currents, which try to explain the reality of the external world, are based on a poorly posed problem and presuppose that there is a causal relationship between object and subject, assuming that it is reality that produces the representation in the subject, or, on the other hand, that it is the subject who produces the representation of the object. These are two false assumptions, because the causal relationships exist between the represented objects and not between subject and object.
“The will takes a turn, it no longer affirms its own being, which is reflected in the phenomenon (Erscheinung), but denies it. The Phenomenon (Phänomen) by means of which this manifests is the passage from virtue to asceticism. Indeed, he is no longer satisfied with loving his neighbor as himself or with doing for others what he would do for himself, but a horror is born in him towards that being whose expression is his own phenomenon, towards the will to live, core and essence of that world recognized as a torment. That is why he denies precisely that essence that appears in him and that is already expressed through his body, and his actions now give a lie to his phenomenon and are in contradiction with it. Being essentially nothing more than a phenomenon of the will, it ceases to want anything,he flees from the dependence of his will on anything and tries to reaffirm in his inner heart the utmost indifference towards all things. His body, healthy and robust, expresses the sexual instinct through the genitals; but he denies the will and gives a lie to the body: he does not want any sexual satisfaction, under any conditions. (…) With the complete suppression of knowledge, the world would disappear into nothingness, since there is no object without a subject ”.
So if Schopenhauer's noumenon concept in man is introspection or self-knowledge and the will, something that cannot by definition be avoided, this leads us to despair regarding the concept of freedom. It is as if the entire universe has the will to continually change itself, it is like an infinity in itself. Better to commit suicide and we save all effort. This too would be part of the noumen, right? This brings us to the famous question what purpose do we have and what the heck do we do in this valley of tears?
Chaos, irrationality and an infinite and empty longing is what makes up the essence of the world, the meaning of life? None, rather we must fight to escape from the world through art or compassion. Schopenhauer does not approve of suicide because it is nothing more than a gesture of the will, another act of suffering and vain desire.
There is no freedom, we are like leaves blown by the wind of will. This makes his system of social organization somewhat conservative to our current view.
conclusion
The manifestation of pessimistic behavior, that this is rather a tendency to see things from the most unfavorable side, close to disappointment, discouragement, negativity, hopelessness, demoralization. Pessimistic people generally feel frustrated and disappointed, and it generates frustration, to everyone who hears him speak, sees him act, and observes all the pessimistic characteristics that accompany him, they lose interest in things and are not motivators of a optimistic behavior and everything that happens to them they think is because of their bad luck.
These ways of thinking will set guidelines to determine decisions, actions, and the future of human beings.
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