Comments on: Mythbusting myths on pessimism #1

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By: Halenp

Halenp — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 21:32:00 +0000

What is overlooked is that 49% of drivers ARE more skillful than the average driver and 75% of college graduates were RIGHT about finishing college. These people had just as much ability as they thought and therefore were being “realistic”. The article painted over the right and the wrong optimists with the same brush and failed to mention that there were more correct optimists. Realistic can be a trait of both optimists and pessimists. Now for that 20% who failed the article is correct in saying that they overestimated their ability and I’m sure some of them learned a lesson about themselves that was very valuable(which is a victory either way in my book). Also, the article doesn’t leave much room for second chances, learning, adapting and improvement. You might over estimate your ability today, but tomorrow you might have what it takes because of lessons learned.

So, of the 95% of people who thought they would graduate 78.9% did, but how many of the 5% who thought they would not graduate did or did not graduate? Why do they leave that statistic out? Without that statistic how do you know the pessimist was more realistic or more right? What the article did right there was make an assumption and our minds were supposed to fill in the blank: Pessimists always fail? Do they? And if they do why would we wanna be that way?

It’s easy to test an optimist by the percentages that succeed and failed and say some overestimated and were not realistic, but how do you test whether the pessimist underestimated himself if he doesn’t give a full effort(A full effort from a true pessimist is very hard to come by and some would say impossible because the mind is a part of the effort and if it is defeated before it engages then the effort is not full). Ergo the pessimist may more often correctly foresee his future but optimists have a better chance of success because they try.

It’s like in sports; you’ll only make a percentage of the shots you take, but you’ll make zero of the shots you never take. And the more you shoot the better you get.

The only way those college grads could find out if they had the ability to make it all the way was to try and 79% of them were right. Those are some pretty good odds and that seems pretty realistic to be optimistic to me.

I think realistic is what we should shoot for so that we never over or underestimate the situation. It is not a fair assumption that realistic thought makes people pessimistic. Those who believe that lie DON’T HAVE ENOUGH CREATIVITY AND RESOLVE TO CHANGE THE POOR REALITY THEY SEE!! Good always wins in the end and we either aid that happening or obstruct it. If you have to see it to believe it, your name will never be on the pages of history books for changing the reality of the human experience.