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Optimism vs pessimism

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SpiritoftheTunA
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States20903 Posts
March 03 2016 22:48 GMT
#1
Optimism

Optimism is the inclination towards believing the good outcome is possible and attainable, probable enough to be worthy of working at. It requires a belief that the good outcome is good enough to attempt to realize. Inherent to it, though often illogically and incorrectly so, is the implied belief that the optimistic outlook itself is important and worth having and somehow tied to the actual realization of the good outcome.

Optimism, at least the good kind, carries with it a strong sense of agency. Human effort is needed to bring about good outcomes, and the clever optimist is ever critical of what aspects of one's approach might need improvement so as to best bring about the good result.

blahbl lah

balhl

pessimism

pessimism is the inclination towards believing the bad outcome is overwhelmingly likely, to the point that effort spent towards avoiding it is wasted.

pessimism is giving up on teh shanghai major cuz u dont trust anyone cuz all these chinese fuckers r too lazy anyway

pessimism is giving this interview and not even apparently attempting to rally

pessimism is when all the sgamers fans flame the teams full on whenever they dont succeed because they feel the hope of recovery is too distant to want to encourage their teams instead

pessimism is american politics

pessimism can be self-prophesizing and self-perpetuating, depending on the subject of one's pessimism

but of course sometimes its justified

being mostly pessimistic without fully giving up on something is an awful state to be in, though

most things that are right to be pessimistic about are not worth thinking about

etc
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tehh4ck3r
Profile Joined August 2013
Magrathea7048 Posts
March 03 2016 22:57 GMT
#2
On March 04 2016 07:48 SpiritoftheTunA wrote:
blahbl lah

balhl


thanks for the insight tuna
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AdministratorIn those days, spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
yookstah
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia655 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-03-03 23:22:43
March 03 2016 23:22 GMT
#3
realism - ur a poobutt

rated 5 stars
"I'm saying that you are all the time aggressive. I say to you choose situations to be aggressive and not aggressive. I'm talking it" - Cooller
SpiritoftheTunA
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States20903 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-03-04 00:18:15
March 04 2016 00:17 GMT
#4
"realism" is generally what pessimists call it when they're trying to sound superior to optimists about the same subject

even if theyre right theyre poobutts generally yea

its still important to be right, but again, it's usually not an effective use of time to dwell on what to be rightfully pessimistic about
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goody153
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
44171 Posts
March 04 2016 04:27 GMT
#5
optimism good
this is a quote
Salazarz
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Korea (South)2591 Posts
March 04 2016 16:19 GMT
#6
Pessimism is seeing only a dark tunnel. Optimism is seeing light at the end of it. Realism is knowing the light is coming from a train that's about to run you over.
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