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the stubborn belief that tomorrow hasn't run out of plot twists yet
means Hopeful and inclined to expect good outcomes, even when the evidence is mixed.
from From Latin 'optimus,' meaning 'best' — the superlative of 'bonus,' good. The word arrived through the 18th-century philosophical doctrine of 'optimism,' the idea (famously championed by Leibniz and mercilessly mocked by Voltaire in Candide) that this is the best of all possible worlds. Over time the heavy philosophy fell away and left the sunnier everyday sense: expecting the best.
- longer lives
- Optimists live up to 15% longer on average
- brain wiring
- The brain resists updating beliefs after good news
- word origin
- From Latin optimum, meaning the best possible
- market fuel
- Stock bubbles run almost entirely on optimism
- placebo power
- Expecting recovery measurably speeds it up
for instance
hans rosling — swedish physician who showed global poverty declined from 85% (1800) to 10% (2015) through data visualization