Winston Churchill said a pessimist sees the difficulty and…

Winston Churchill said a pessimist sees the difficulty and every opportunity and optimist sees the opportunity and every difficulty.

— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)

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The trick is to get off your own side long enough to see the others: solicit the other person's point of view before you decide you have the facts, and ask yourself, plainly, what is another way I could view this, and how would someone else see it? As Proust said, the only true voyage of discovery is not to seek new landscapes but to see with new eyes. Churchill caught the whole instrument in one line: the pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, and the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Then expectation, the forecasting instrument — and the one that quietly governs your happiness. — The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)

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