Pessimists Live Longer Lives According To A New Study

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Suck on it bitches! :slight_smile:

No big surprise.
Optimism works best when you have good governing. Pessimism works best when you have bad governing. That shouldn’t surprise anyone.

I am just glad that optimistic smug assholes are left out of something finally.

Er…if they are being classified as pessimists/optimists on the grounds of whether or not they over- or underestimated how happy they would be, wouldn’t that make anybody who died or became disabled but didn’t predict it an optimist by definition?

I always think of this when people talk about pessimists and optimists.