This seems like a lot of words and a lot of word games to say something that could have been said in a much simplified form by recognizing that optimism directs

This seems like a lot of words and a lot of word games to say something that could have been said in a much simplified form by recognizing that optimism directs effort and pessimism quashes effort and you need a healthy dose of both to be effective because pessimism used correctly (what the other labelled criticism in this piece) cuts off effort on what the person thinks are the worst solutions and focuses it on the best possible solutions. Instead this gets into a lot of words about kinds of optimism and redefining pessimism as criticism if it is used effectly