While
investigating high
performance, I came across the idea of irrational optimism. Matthew Syed attributes to Arsene
Wenger, of Arsenal FC fame, the statement: "No top performer has lacked
this capacity for irrational optimism…the ability to remove doubt from his
mind." In other words, you do not consider the possibility of failure when
you're being irrationally optimistic. Why irrational? Because, naturally, in
any significant endeavor, there is always a possibility of failure. The
irrational optimism is in having no doubt about your future success.
Recent
research findings tell us that being pessimistic may help the elderly live
longer. Of course I want people to live longer. What troubles me is the idea
that if we consider optimism to be irrational in certain situations, we may
conclude that optimism
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