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Optimism and health Mindset is all. How you start the year will set the template for the rest, and two scientifically backed character traits hold the key optimism and resilience (if the prospect leaves you feeling pessimistically spineless, the good news is that you can significantly boost both of these qualities.). Faced with 12 Months of plummeting economics and rising human distress, staunchly maintaining a rosy view might seem deludedly Pollyannaish. But here we encounter the optimism paradox. As Brice Pitt, an emeritus professor of the psychiatry of old age at Imperial College, London, told me: “Optimists are unrealistic. Depressive people see things as they really are, but that is a disadvantage from an evolutionary point of view. Optimism is a piece of evolutionary equipment that carried us through millennia of setbacks.” Optimists have plenty to be happy about. In other words, if you can convince yourself that things will get better, the odds of it happening will improve...

          Many countries aim to improve their living standard by economic development, but  some important social values are lost  as a result . Do you think the advantages of economic development outweigh the disadvantages?          In many countries women to no feel the need to get married. Some people believe that this is because women  are able to  earn their own income and therefore do not require the financial security that marriage can bring. To what extent do you agree?         Most societies have its homeless people. Some people think  that  the best way to help them is to give them money. To what extent do you agree?           More developing countries are given  aid from international organizations to help them in their development plans. Some people argue that financial aid is important but others suggest that practical aid and advice a...