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The article seems to confuse optimism with thinking everything is good. I think many people do. Thinking everything is good means not having a reason to improv

The article seems to confuse optimism with thinking everything is good. I think many people do. Thinking everything is good means not having a reason to improve anything. Just eat some lotus, dude, it's okay . . . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus-eaters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus-eaters Optimism, on the other hand, is the belief in improvement. To improve is to accept and to signal that we are not in the best of all possible worlds so that we can work toward improvement.

AlbertCory 3y ago
"Optimism Bias" is a pretty well-accepted term in the research, and it's defined in here, which I cited: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(11)01191-2.pdf https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(11)01191... It means having a more positive view of your prospects than is warranted. Also, considering the risks to be less than they actually are ("it won't happen to me!"). What you're talking about is complacency.