Pessimist or Optimist: Who Has the Edge? |
Friday Jun 12 2009
By Jim Selman | Bio
I was reading an interesting article by a prestigious think tank this morning that was saying perhaps the ‘recession’ isn’t as black or white as most of us make it out to be and that it most certainly isn’t as bad as conventional wisdom and media hype would have us believe. I noticed I felt a little better after reading it, but then I wondered why my mood shifted so easily based on only one article. Tomorrow I could read a darker scenario by another equally reputable authority and feel depressed. Some days I am optimistic and some days I am pessimistic. This came as a bit of a surprise, since one of the tenets of my work and what I teach is that ‘pessimism’ and ‘optimism’ are counter-productive concepts—assessments based on attempting to predict an unpredictable future.[Read More]
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
Tagged with: choice optimism pessimism possibility recession risk
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