Don’t Pre-Order Your Misery

If you expect less, you get hurt less.
If you assume things won’t work, you don’t look dumb when they don’t.
If you call the worst outcome early, nobody can surprise you with it.

But it’s also a trap.

Here's the thing:

It’s better to be optimistic for a long time and turn out wrong than be pessimistic forever and turn out to be right.

Pessimism is easy because it doesn’t ask anything from you.
You don’t have to risk anything.
You don’t have to start anything.
You don’t have to be the guy who believed a little too much and failed miserably.

You can just sit there and wait for the world to prove you correct, without doing anything.

And if it does, you get to say “I knew it.”
But you still lose.

You lose the months you could’ve been moving.
You lose the relationships you could’ve repaired.
You lose the versions of you that only show up when you actually try.

Optimism isn’t “everything will be fine.”

It’s more like:
I’m going to act like it can be fine.
Even if I can’t prove it yet.

But at least you did something.
At least you were in the positivity trenches of believing in something.

Pessimism is this weird pre-quit. The main reason I'm even writing this right now: I see everyone hate on AI and technology advancements, and nobody wants to see it in a positive light because all they see is robots taking over their jobs and the world becoming so weird and a bad place to raise kids in. To be honest its hurtful to see so many people give up so easily.
I'm pretty sure the guy who had the biggest horse trade was pretty pissed when the wheel was created.
Don't quit before you even start.
Don't rug pull your self-respect.