In comparing my personal baseline optimism to others, I’m definitely on the “dreamer” side of the spectrum. Most people around me? Pessimistic by default. Some

In comparing my personal baseline optimism to others, I’m definitely on the “dreamer” side of the spectrum. Most people around me? Pessimistic by default. Some are wired that way, some seem to have been molded by education, family, and/or work. It led me to this tongue in cheek thought: Pessimists definitely played important roles in the early US space program, but it was optimists who suited up and believed they could make it there and back.