When I saw the title of this chapter “Optimism and Reality”, I first came up with an English comedian, Charlie Chaplin. His comedies included irony towards the movement of society. He showed people the problems of war and Natis through his comedy.
I think optimism is important for all people, not only the leaders. When I become to think negativelly, I lose my willingness to do anything. Oppositely, when I think that I can solve the problem, I can usually get it through.
Hellen Keller said;
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
However, people should be looking at the reality.
I think this picture shows the idea very well, because the cup is filled with water for only half, but this quote is calling it “technically full”. To be optimism is knowing the reality and changing it to possitive way of thinking.
In this way, people would be able to adjust their thoughts to the situation flexiblly, which would lead to the success.
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Daily Motivational Quotes “Optimism”
Hi Miku,
ReplyDeleteThanks for two find posts. When you say love can mean more than love in the usual sense, you made me think of the Japanese term "ikigai" which I suppose translates to life purpose, which it is said that having one leads to a longer and generally more satisfying life. And I love the glass is actually full idea, which I hadn't seen before.
I'll mark these down as blog posts for last week, and if you wish you can use this week to continue to catch up.