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Your definitions of pessimism and optimism don’t even seem to correspond with the paper in question. It’s not talking about a life philosophy, it’s about how on
by rTX5CMRXIfFG 3y ago
Your definitions of pessimism and optimism don’t even seem to correspond with the paper in question. It’s not talking about a life philosophy, it’s about how one perceives one’s chances at a positive outcome given random events.
- hiAndrewQuinn 3y agoBetter still to think about the expected value of optimism vs. pessimism. It's good to have well calibrated likelihoods of success, but it's also good to remember just doing things which might succeed feels inherently good.
- misja111 3y agoI would like to go further and state that just optimism by itself feels inherently good. Even though pessimism can minimize impact of all kind of negative future live events, it won't make you any happier if you will always be as pessimistic as you are now.
- born2meme 3y ago[flagged]