This article is adapted from "Why It Pays To Be an Optimist" by Martha E.
One of the reasons I ask this question in the first place is that my natural tendency is to be an optimist.
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For Lanier, with all of his musings on the present-day homogenizing of young people's social lives through Twitter and Facebook (and I agree with him, for he's so obviously correct about that), seems to desperately want to be an optimist in a world where -- if you accept any, most, or all of his premises -- there is no reason to be such.
You have to be something of an optimist to believe that governments which can tax more easily will also tax more lightly.
Therefore, you might suppose that to be a professional tech investor--one who bets huge in up markets and coolly bails out at the start of down markets--well, such a superman must be more than an optimist and futurist.
So the visitor returns thankful for much of what he has seen, and, in spite of everything, an optimist about what his country might be.
But even then, the indefatigable optimist Chu suggests, he'll be an early buyer among the rubble.
And if you looked at the bank lending charts I presented above, an optimist could note that it looks like we might be seeing a bottom forming and even some increase in lending.
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And I am an optimist, as well as my American colleague, and I believe that we will be able to reach compromise on these issues.
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In a speech in Birmingham, Mr Cameron said he was an optimist, and the families depicted in the press as "neighbours from hell" should not be "written off as unreadable or unteachable".
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