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Futures Thinking "Optimism isn’t a belief that everything will go well all the time. It’s a belief that despite the inevitable challenges, we will make progress." "If you want, you can call it 'realistic optimism' or 'pragmatic optimism' or 'realistic skeptical optimism' or whatever you want to call it in your head to make it feel less doe-eyed, but the actual definition of optimism captures those, so I’ll just call it optimism...". "...It’s not blind optimism, but it’s not pessimism. It’s the very optimistic belief that things will inevitably go wrong, but that each new challenge is an opportunity for further progress. "That’s the kind of optimism I’m arguing for, and I’ll go further: I think the single most important thing we can try to do is to make the world more optimistic. Optimism is the meta that defines the rate of progress, and progress translates into longer, healthier, wealthier, and happier lives for more people." |