Hope and Optimism Go Together

Wei: Hope is a feeling you have in the midst of uncertainty. Hopeful arises when you don't know if you can get the thing. The minute you start hoping, it puts you in this kind of existential tension. And so we develop these fears of hope. We've got to talk about hope and then our fear of hope. That hope comes in expectation, which then sets you up for massive disappointments.

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