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While this is valid view. It is a view. Language can be used to describe reality or to create it. >That seems reasonable to me. I've often found optimism in ot
by wildduck 7y ago
While this is valid view. It is a view. Language can be used to describe reality or to create it.
>That seems reasonable to me. I've often found optimism in others to be foolish.
"Stay hungry, stay foolish",- Steve Job's commencement speech at Stanford.
Sometime foolishness is what make a difference. It is really all about timing and context.
- cco 7y agoI think you're missing the point, it is foolish, it doesn't map to reality, but that doesn't make it maladaptive. The point here is that the maladaptive group, depressed people, see the world closer to its real state, clearly it is advantageous for humans to see the world through rose colored glasses to some degree.
- bigred100 7y agoMy basic understanding is that Steve Jobs was a manipulative, mentally ill child abuser who gets a pass because he made the iPod. Everyone has their own perspective, but I’d rather not be those things than do them and make a difference by manufacturing popular consumer goods. But this is of course not an argument for depression.
- mirimir 7y agoThere is the perspective that reality is what you say it is. And empowering interpretations provide openings for actions. But then there's hypomania.