I started reading this back when it was new, but quit fairly early on, when the author wrote that pessimists had a much more accurate view of reality than optim

I started reading this back when it was new, but quit fairly early on, when the author wrote that pessimists had a much more accurate view of reality than optimists. I wrote a post in March of last year, Optimism - Dangers and Benefits, http://williambswift.blogspot.com/2009/03/optimism-is-not-necessarily-as.html http://williambswift.blogspot.com/2009/03/optimism-is-not-ne...