I once heard a useful paradigm about the three levels of perspective: 1) Blind optimism 2) Blind pessimism 3) Integrates both. I was first exposed to it thr

I once heard a useful paradigm about the three levels of perspective: 1) Blind optimism 2) Blind pessimism 3) Integrates both. I was first exposed to it through this (disclaimer: religiously) themed speech: https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/bruce-c-hafen_love-is-not-blind-thoughts-college-students-faith-ambiguity/ https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/bruce-c-hafen_love-is-not-bli... I love this quote he the speaker uses: Some stupid people started the idea that because women obviously back up their own people through everything, therefore women are blind and do not see anything. They can hardly have known any women. The same women who are ready to defend their men through thick and thin . . . are almost morbidly lucid about the thinness of [their] excuses or the thickness of [their] head[s]. . . . Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind. [G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy(Garden City, N.Y.: Image Books, 1959), pp. 69–71.]