“Optimism” in the context of “Learned Optimism” is a term describing the way people explain past events to themselves, not their expectation of whether good thi

“Optimism” in the context of “Learned Optimism” is a term describing the way people explain past events to themselves, not their expectation of whether good things will happen to them in the future. In my case, I was dropping my line where the fish were biting.