Funny, I’m typically used to people leaning towards pessimism as the “smarter” perspective, and optimists being considered in naive or ignorant to “How things really are.”

And reading your post in that context felt like reinforcement of that concept.

To be perfectly clear, I’m more optimistic, and I believe that if someone’s pessimism is constantly bringing them down, them they should probably not learn so hard into it. But I wouldn’t say one is better than another, we need as many differing perspectives as possible to create real working solutions.