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Montoya                                                                 if you try think about different ways of approaching things

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Montoya                                                                 if you try think about different ways of approaching things

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The weather. For example if it's sunny and warm outside your self talk can improve, but if it's rainy and cold you can feel much less happiness

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the things that influence our thinking include whats happening around you, past experiences, your personalities and advertisements from companies and the government

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if you try to think more positively you can change your mood. This will change your outlook on the world and you will have a better day

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Your outlook can change your mood

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Positiveness and negative self - thinking is influenced by whether you're optimistic and always letting go of not so good things, or if you believe in the negative things your brain tells you.

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The people around you and society influencing you. How you feel and what has happened to you in past experiences.

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how you think about yourself and how moods effect you

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Your backfound

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Emotions are the biggest influence...

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The biggest thing that influences our thinking is all the thinking happening around us. The things that others around us think and say are what makes our mind think the things it does.

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How other people speak to you, and about you affects how you speak to and about yourself.

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Interactions with people and over thinking small things:
If you wave to a friend passing in the hall way and they don't respond, they're probably not ignoring you, they probably just didn't see you. Although if you continue to over think things like this, it can lead to a downwards spiral of negative self-talk

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Media and society telling us we need to look and think a certain way. The people around us and what they think of them selves and us.
Past  and present experiences that help shape us as well.
The need for validation and other's opinions of us, on social media and in real life.
Our DNA and if we are wired to be a optimist, pessimist or a realist.

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Optimisim is about learning to think positively about our future and we don't get to chose that we have it in our genes and people with adenine are less positive people.

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Other peoples opinion of us

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The events happening around you

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Past experiences can influence our thinking - for example if you keep making mistakes it could lead you to think pessimistic, or optimistic if you think you can keep trying and improving

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Online media

Spending a small efficient amount of time can benefit social skills but if you exceed limits and "go too far" (Using media as an advantage to harm others), it will affect the emotions/mental welbeing of others.

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The experiences, situations, moods and environments around us influence how our self

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Friends and Family

Having the people we love surround us and make us feel loved, included and emotionally well, can change our attitude towards others and it can become a core strength when being social and meeting new people

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it doesn't quite matter if you're an optimist or a pessimist because they both have pros and cons.

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depending on how we feel, or what the current situation is it is also influenced by the people around us

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The stress and homework

It can lead to difficult behaviours that influence our actions.

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the influence of thinking could be from what's happening at the time

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How we perceive the world around us. Past life experiences. Whether we are more inclined towards optimism or pessimism. - Saffron

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Our think is influenced by our mood

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The environment and the people around us

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Past experiences

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Current situation in life

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Our brain (our brain usually makes us think positively)

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Genes (people with two copies of guanine tend be more positive while people with copies of adenine are less positive)