There’s all types of people in this world.
Some view the glass to be half full.
Others see it half empty.
Which is the right approach?
Perhaps a clue lies in David Landes’s Wealth and Poverty of Nations.
In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when wrong, they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.