WHETHER THE GLASS IS HALF FULL OR HALF EMPTY

In order to find the attitude/approach of a person, there is a very popular experiment. The instructor puts a glass half filled with water before the student and asks whether the glass is half full of half empty. If the student says that the glass is half full, the instructor announces it to be the optimistic approach and if the student claims it to be half empty, the instructor blames the student to have a negative attitude. Recently, one of my friends, Neelabh Kshitiz also faced this question. And amazingly he proved to the instructor, that saying it half empty is not the negative attitude by stating that saying half full shows satisfaction and hence snaps our path to progress. This compelled me to think that for a single situation if two decisions will be equally right, then how one will make a decision because decisions are a part of our lives and without it there is no progress. This forced contemplation brought me to the solution to this problem. It simply depends upon the situation, whether the student has the ability to fill the glass or not. It the student is given the power to fill it up, and then my friend stands true. If not, the general opinion is acceptable.

Now, let us make it practical. If the question is regarding our progress and we must not be satisfied and feel ourselves restless and if the question is regarding the part of nature not under our control i.e., climatic conditions, behavior of others, we must feel content and should not be annoyed of it.