I was watching a TED Talk this came up about happiness. Negative thinking is better than Positive thinking because if you always think it's all going to shit and it is not happening but it works out and works well your pleasantly surprised and feel overall better but it you think positively about something and it crashes and burns spectacularly you feel more disappointed and worst of over all. So would they would be better off if you did not have high hope but try your best and be pleasantly surprise then have high hopes and try your best be disappointed? Also it would make that achievement taste even sweeter if it does way better than you hoped?
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
