Predictions of the future made by pessimists lead to a life of no mistakes, but neither do they take you anywhere new. It's just like living a suburban life all

Predictions of the future made by pessimists lead to a life of no mistakes, but neither do they take you anywhere new. It's just like living a suburban life all of your life: you'll never learn what's outside your neighborhood. Or take larger corporations: they stop making any existential risks, and tend to slowly die in the next 50-100 years. On the second part: or you could just set high expectations and learn how to live in a constant disappointment without being any less happy because of it.