There's a natural tendency to reach for optimism, but there should be a natural cautionary vibe against letting your optimism become delusion. I think the best kind of optimism is you know what? There's got to be something that i can do here. It's just that, of all the things you could pay attention to, should you pay attention to the things that you can't control? So couple your optimism with agency, you're saying yes.

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