Matthieu Ricard: Finding Inner Freedom
Sounds True: Insights at the Edge
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Is There a Difference Between Optimism and Realistic?
i think many ple are feeling a sense of discouragement and despair. I want to read a quote from the book from you and then have you comment on it. We often say that optimists are naive and that pessimists are more realistic. It's been shown that this handed down idea is false. Pessimists greatly exaggerate the negative aspects of a situation, they don't try them out because they don't think they'll work. Conversely, the degree of freedom of optimists is much greater. And so it's clear that you're very much here in favor of optimism.
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