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  2. Optimism - Wikipedia

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    Optimism is the attitude or mindset of expecting events to lead to particularly positive, favorable, desirable, and hopeful outcomes. A common idiom used to illustrate optimism versus pessimism is a glass filled with water to the halfway point: an optimist

  3. Optimism bias - Wikipedia

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    Optimism bias or optimistic bias is a cognitive bias that causes someone to believe that they themselves are less likely to experience a negative event. It is also known as unrealistic optimism or comparative optimism. It is common and transcends gender, ethnicity, nationality, and age. [1] Autistic people are less susceptible to this kind of ...

  4. Pessimism - Wikipedia

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    An optimist and a pessimist, Vladimir Makovsky, 1893. Pessimism is a mental attitude in which an undesirable outcome is anticipated from a given situation. Pessimists tend to focus on the negatives of life in general.

  5. Future - Wikipedia

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    Pessimism as stated before is the opposite of optimism. It is the tendency to see, anticipate, or emphasize only bad or undesirable outcomes, results, or problems. The word originates in Latin from Pessimus meaning worst and Malus meaning bad and has a link to misanthropic belief systems.

  6. Mark Zuckerberg thinks pessimists ‘tend to be right’ but ...

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    Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is among the world’s wealthiest individuals, with a net worth topping $100 billion. While a number of factors explain his success, one might simply be his optimistic nature.

  7. Existential nihilism - Wikipedia

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    Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no objective meaning or purpose. [1] The inherent meaninglessness of life is largely explored in the philosophical school of existentialism, where one can potentially create their own subjective "meaning" or "purpose".

  8. Optimism is just what the doctor ordered. But what if I’m ...

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    Optimism training, she said, can improve life satisfaction and lessen anxiety. “Even if you were not born with this natural disposition to anticipate favorable outcomes and see the glass as half ...

  9. This is bananas: The art world is expecting a ‘Trump Bump ...

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    Meaning, when the stock market is down, art may be performing relatively better, and when stocks are up, art may be comparatively weaker. In that way, it can be helpful for diversification.