What then, will the future look like?

That's about all it can do.

It was a few weeks later, and I had just finished looking at the comic section of the Sunday Star.

And will it happen?

I am by turns an optimist and a pessimist.

And that anticipation enhances their wellbeing.

Average likelihood is 30 percent, the left inferior frontal gyrus would respond fiercely.

They could have taken a cab from there.

The optimist looks into a mirror and becomes more optimistic, the pessimist more pessimistic.

We have the capacity to do it. One final point

Let's call this scenario one, which is kind of the best scenario.

And here's the thing it wasn't doing a very good job.

The group of senators doesn't share your optimism.

And it's a global phenomenon.

These have to be identified by scientific investigation.

Before, revolutions used to have ideological names.

We need to make sure that we're a little bit suspicious, that we understand that optimism is in the DNA of the military, that we don't respond to it with quite as much alacrity.

Optimism leads to success in academia and sports and politics.

Communist, Nazi, fascist ...

Well, I'm not an optimist, neither am I a pessimist.

So they tend to expect the future to be worse than it ends up being.

So what we would really like to do, is we would like to protect ourselves from the dangers of optimism, but at the same time remain hopeful, benefiting from the many fruits of optimism.

So as I look around at all the evidence and I think about the room that we have ahead of us,

How dare we be optimistic?

I'd like to know...

Well, we've seen that that can't be true.

Pessimism is a luxury of good times ...

On Sunday, the only thing you can look forward to is the work week.

But people's expectations for their future went up significantly.

Optimists believe that growth will continue forever, without limits.

All revisionist,

That sound familiar?

If we could do that, would we want to take people's optimism bias away?

And that's something which I'd like to elaborate on.

He's a vegetarian.

You love your heroes.

Leonidas is an idealist.

Explorers in the further regions of experience.

And at this point we stopped and we asked ourselves, would we want to shatter the optimism illusion into tiny little bits?

Chris Anderson Quick question for you, Dan.

I don't know whether that's going to happen or not, but I'm an optimist.

Controlled experiments have shown that optimism is not only related to success, it leads to success.

And it is that belief that I think drives society.

Read it from an African woman, the damage that we have done.

Optimistic estimate