If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
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There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
If you don't have a tonne of optimism, you're not going to make it... you won't be able to evangelise to everyone else. On the other hand, if you aren't constantly paranoid about what can go wrong and put plans in place, then you're going to get bitten at some point.
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.
I'm not interested in blind optimism, but I'm very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, 'This is not enough.'
There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.
The future is as bright as your faith.
I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.
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