Are You Really Tough?

Abraham Lincoln: We're very pessimistic us modern people you know we're pessimistic about humanity that's for sure dismal wretched planet destroying cancer on the planet right as the club of Rome described us so pleasantly back in the 1960s. You find out by pushing yourself against the world and of course that's what Abraham is doing, he says. The optimism that's not naive isn't just a visualization of how strong people can be but it would be nice if we could be optimistic and I think began the problem with being optimistic is that it's naive.