3 Ps of Optimism / Setbacks / Resilience

1. Personalization - this setback happened because I am bad
2. Pervasive - this reflects on everything I could ever try, every area of my life
3. Permanence - this can never be overcome, or the failure is permanent

vs. an Optimism or Resilience framing where

1. this isn’t about me, could be circumstantial
2. it doesn’t reflect on everything I could do or everything I could try
3. it isn’t permanent and is just a step along the road to somewhere greater