Can somebody explain optimism for me?

[Sebster 105]

I'm going to run something past you all, and I want you to try and explain it

Expect bad, get bad: Called it.
Expect bad, get good: Nice surprise
Expect good, get good: All is well
Expect good, get stuff: :C

It doesn't make sense.

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[Madmitten]

im guessing that just assume everything is going to turn out to be stuff

[Sebster 105]

im guessing that just assume everything is going to turn out to be stuff

Yeah, it's true most of the time and it makes more sense than getting let down

[IkeTheGeneric]

If you expect the worst out of all situations, you can get the best out of good outcomes!


If only it worked that way.

[Chrono]

Optimism is for people who don't want to seem like the miserable person who often makes others angry by bitching and complaining about things that haven't happened yet.

[Dread]

Pessimists are always pleasantly surprised.

[Madmitten]

Optimism is for people who don't want to seem like the miserable person who often makes others angry by bitching and complaining about things that haven't happened yet.

olol
now i get it, they are the complainers who like to whine about everything.

AKA teenagers

[*Magick* Mage]

If you are a true pessimist you would always expect the worst. So even when good happens you would be unable to enjoy it, more often than not, because you would expect bad to come of it. If you are a true optimist, you at least aspire to good happening and, when it doesn't, you hope for the best to come about. You can rarely be half and half in the deal and always feel great.

But you shouldn't expect things, anyway. :o

[Blastdown]

Expect good, get stuff: :C

It doesn't make sense.

Expect good, get stuff, expect good again.
It keeps going whether if the result is good or bad.

Why do people act this way?
I have no idea, even though I do it myself.

[Sebster 105]

Optimism is for people who don't want to seem like the miserable person who often makes others angry by bitching and complaining about things that haven't happened yet.

I don't whine about somsething before it even happens
I just don't go into something expecting it to be good

Except from Subway and things with Stephen Fry in it

[Proog]

The glass is half full.

[Blastdown]

The glass is half full.

The glass is half full if you added liquid (e.g., filling the glass).
The glass is half empty if the liquid depletes (e.g., drinking).


That is how I see it.

[Iban]

What is the point of being a pessimist?

If bad things happen, do you get to brag about it?

Typically, if you think something is going to go well (at least when you're not lying to yourself when there is no possibility it will), it will.

[_Rave_]

Well, the natural human state is happiness I suppose.  If someone is happy, it is normal to us.  If someone is sad, people become concerned for you.  Optimism obviously comes out of happiness, so by the way I figure it is only natural to be optimistic.

[Iban]

Well, the natural human state is happiness I suppose.  If someone is happy, it is normal to us.  If someone is sad, people become concerned for you.  Optimism obviously comes out of happiness, so by the way I figure it is only natural to be optimistic.

Absolutely not. Nihilism is the default state of mind. That is why Religion exists.