Optimism is a belief that the odds of a…

Optimism is a belief that the odds of a good outcome are in your favor. Overtime, even when there will be setbacks along the way. Late status station Hans Rosling put it differently, I am not an optimist. I made very serious possiblist.

— from The Mind in the Cockpit

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The humbling fact is that some of yours are certainly wrong — you just don't yet know which, and that is fine, so long as you stay willing to be shown. Even optimism, rightly understood, is only a belief — a working bet that the odds of a good outcome are, over time, in your favor; and a low ceiling on what you think yourself capable of is just as much a belief, and just as movable. The whole art is unlimiting — casting aside the cramped picture you once drew of your own potential. — The Mind in the Cockpit

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