Here’s a humorous take on how optimists differ from pessimists. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Opitmists vs. Pessimists” People keep sending us German jokes and I like this one. It translates as: The pessimist...
If you see the trash can as half full, does that make you an optimist or a pessimist? Since it’s half full of garbage, as opposed to daisies or puppies, it’s questionable. On the other hand, in the tweeted words of Jill Morris:...
permabear n.— «Then there was the espouser of doom himself: Roubini was known to be a perpetual pessimist, what economists call a “permabear.” When the economist Anirvan Banerji delivered his response to Roubini’s talk, he noted that...