alt Hacker NewsPessimism and optimism are philosophical perspectives (dispositions) and do not necessarily have anything do with doing good or doing bad. Why do you think optimism only precipitates good things? Surely you can imagine a situation (or many) where thinking more positively about a situation than the data warrants leads to bad outcomes?
> Surely you can imagine a situation (or many) where thinking more positively about a situation than the data warrants leads to bad outcomes?
We're not talking about hypotheticals - we can always construct hypotheticals that yield the answer we desire - but the real world.