EPTOptimism 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.
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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
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