pessimism [Theme]

If you want to create happy families, then you need to marry optimism with stupidity, and combine pessimism with wisdom.

Pessimism, once you get used to it, is as pleasant as optimism.

If the mind can cause anxiety, it can also alleviate it. It is within our power to choose one thought over another and choose optimism over pessimism.

Even in the most desperate situations, we have to look for a way out. We play chess every day. Our enemy is evil. More often than not, we win. Although it happens that it is not. And all this for the sake of one word. Hope! She glimmers in us. She is our fuel.

- I am a doctor. The craft makes me an optimist with a penchant for realism.

I don't think that optimism is more attractive than pessimism for a successful move, called progress, if only because they don't exist separately. To move forward, it is necessary to believe in the movement as much as to beware of its results.

“Not a bad idea, but wrong.

- Gena, you're lucky. And there's nothing wrong with that.
- Probably. Do you know what could be worse than Bukin, who is lucky?
- A book in a thong who is lucky.
- Not a bad idea, but wrong.

Muggle scientists have found that people are always overly optimistic: they say that some process will take two days, but in fact it takes ten, or they say - two months, and it takes more than thirty-five years. Or, for example, a survey of students was conducted, by what date they are 50%, 75% and 99% sure that they will complete their homework. And only 13%, 19% and 45% of them complete it by the specified time. Scientists have discovered the cause. The subjects were asked to describe the ideal and typical scenarios. And the resulting descriptions were almost identical. If you ask a person to plan something for the future, then he usually, imagining the most likely course of events, forgets about the possibility of mistakes or surprises. Most of the subjects did not finish the work by the deadline of which they were 99% sure, so that the actual results were worse than even the worst-case scenario. This phenomenon is called a "planning error," and the best way to avoid it is to consider how long it took to do any work in the past. That is, to look at the process from the outside. If you're taking on something for the first time and there's a possibility of failure, you have to be very, very, very pessimistic. So pessimistic that the results accurately exceed expectations. I, for one, work hard to present a grim picture of one of my classmates being bitten by a monster, but it could actually happen that the surviving Death Eaters attack the school to grab me. It's good that...
"Enough is enough," McGonagall interrupted.
Harry fell silent. He was just going to add that they at least knew that the Dark Lord wouldn't attack because he was dead.

A pessimist is a pile of ashes from a former optimist.

The main fear of every person is the recognition of their complete inaction. Can anyone honestly admit to himself what he is doing and for whose benefit?

Suffering is the fundamental constant of life. And a person adjusts his perception and his expectations to ensure that they correspond to a given dose of suffering. In other words, no matter what sunny day falls to us, our consciousness will always finish drawing a little clouds in the sky and still slightly upset.

The press, railways, social assistance, penicillin - who would ever think to dispute that these are all wonderful innovations in the "garden of man"? However, after all the abominations of the 20th century, arranged with the help of technology - from Verdun to the Gulag, from Auschwitz to Hiroshima - experience does not predispose to any optimism. Historical knowledge and pessimism seem to force one and the same conclusion. And the catastrophes that have not yet occurred, but are already hanging over us, call civilization into question everywhere. At the end of the 20th century, negative futurology is on the crest. “The possibility of the worst has already been taken into account,” it only has to happen.

If you were born kind and honest man on earth - cheer up due to the fact that I will never be able to occupy a high position in society. The world is arranged in such a way that the arrogant and unscrupulous in it easier. But that's no reason to get the same. Kindness and poverty not necessarily a cause for pessimism. It is much better to get yourself together and prove to yourself that you are Mature and stable. And then in this world something will change. But just to complain about life because of the fact that you can't manipulate other people and to deceive - shame.