Optomist, or pessamist

[LLXerxes]

What are you? Optomist, pessamist, somethingelseamist confused: )
Well?

 

[IglooDame]

I hope for the best and prepare for the worst - what does that make me?

 

[Mapache]

We are all doomed. :suicide:

 

[LLXerxes]

I hope for the best and prepare for the worst - what does that make me?

It's notreally what you hope for, wait, maybe it kinda is.
Your probably an opomist

 

[Turner]

I voted pessimistic, cuz I usually find the dark side to everything. Worry wart, that's me.

But I'd say that I'm optimistically pessimistic.

 

[Quentin]

You do realise that you spelled both optimist and pessimist wrongly right? Spelling police are NOT authroized at CFC. Lefty A test I once took put me somewhere in between but I reckon I'm more optimistic than most people.
I chose optomist by the way. Hmm... that sounds like some job related to eyes.

 

[Evertonian]

optimistic

Optimistic people have better lives
See here for why

Extract:

It's an age-old battle. Pessimists think optimists are foolish; optimists think pessimists make themselves unnecessarily miserable. A lot of research has been done on this issue in the last 30 years. Have we answered the question yet? Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

Martin Seligman and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania found that optimistic people are happier than pessimists. When something bad happens, optimists think of it as temporary, limited in its effect, and not entirely their fault. Pessimists do the opposite. They consider the setback to be permanent, far-reaching and all their fault.

There are varying degrees of this, of course; it’s not black or white. Most people fall somewhere between the two extremes. The main difference between optimists and pessimists is how they explain setbacks to themselves. Using these definitions, researchers find that optimism contributes to good health and pessimism contributes to illness.

In several large-scale, long-term, carefully controlled experiments, Seligman discovered that optimists are more successful than pessimists - optimistic politicians win more elections, optimistic students get better grades, optimistic athletes win more contests, optimistic salespeople make more money.

Why would this be so?

Because optimism and pessimism both tend to be self-fulfilling prophecies. If you think a setback is permanent, why would you try to change it?

Pessimistic explanations tend to make you feel defeated - making you less likely to take constructive action.

Optimistic explanations, on the other hand, make you more likely to act.

If you think the setback is only temporary, you’re apt to try to do something about it, and because you take action, you make it temporary.

It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

 

[Perfection]

I'm just plain cynical.

 

[Mise]

optimists think pessimists make themselves unnecessarily miserable.

I'm happy being miserable.

I assume that I'm constantly s*** out of luck by default. I guess it really is a self fullfilling prophecy.

 

[The Last Conformist]

I guess my natural state is fairly pessimistic.

Optimism may be more "effective", but I've always felt that pessimism is the aesthetically more appealing attitude.

 

[Iggy]

Optimistic explanations, on the other hand, make you more likely to act.

If you think the setback is only temporary, you’re apt to try to do something about it, and because you take action, you make it temporary.

It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I am a cynical optimistic realist. Example: I buy a lottery ticket in the hope of winning. I doubt I will win, but if I do win it will probably only be £10.

 

[Moss]

I'm a pessimistic idealist.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Im a realist, which means that pessimists think Im an optimist and optimists think Im a pessimist.

 

[Japher]

The sad thing is i'm pretty sure I am the only optimist left in this world.

 

[Mise]

The sad thing is i'm pretty sure I am the only optimist left in this world.

@ the pessimist irony of that sentence

 

[Vanadorn]

The sad thing is i'm pretty sure I am the only optimist left in this world.

That is the most pessimistic thing to say. So if you were an optomist, you just killed him!

V

 

[The Last Conformist]

"When I'm being pessimistic, I think I'm a realist.
When I'm being optimistic, I think I'm a pessimist."
-- Unknown

 

[Yaniv]

I'm a realist.
I try to look at things the most logical way, and make an assumption of what will happen.
I never say don't worry everything will be ok, but I do tend to worry too much if I thinnk something might go wrong.

 

[LLXerxes]

The sad thing is i'm pretty sure I am the only optimist left in this world.

naaa, there are atleast 10 other optimists in the world.

BTW, I'm a pessimist.

 

[BCLG100]

It really depends how im feeling, i can be really pessimistic or really optomistic, i therefore ticked neutral.