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Let's all start the show today by asking ourselves a very serious and revealing question.
Are you an optimist?
All right, let's think about ourselves for a second.
When you go about your life and things happen to you throughout your day, good or bad,
when you think about the future, do you think about it optimistically or pessimistically?
There's kind of a bizarre stigma attached to being a pessimist in today's world.
Like, if you're a pessimist, there are certain groups of people that if you're around,
they, I mean, it's the worst thing you could ever possibly be.
You could be a convicted felon.
These people would be more accepting of you than if you're a pessimist.
And heaven forbid, somebody puts a glass of water in front of you.
No, it's half full.
Don't be so hard on yourself all the time.
It's the miracle of life, it's water.
Maybe the best way to get to the bottom of pessimism is just to look around us and try to understand what causes people to be pessimists in the first place.
And look, there's a surprising amount of work done in this field.