To me, they seem very different. Hope is more of a feeling, like anger or love,
whereas optimism is more of a cognitive bias. I tend to be an optimist, but am
largely hopeless. It waxes and wanes, but is usually swamped by feelings of
overwhelming doom. And my doom helps me stay grounded, I think, in spite of my
optimism. Interestingly, doom replaced the anger I grew up with ... somewhere
between age 40-50.
On 1/10/22 08:14, Steve Smith wrote:
On 1/10/22 8:56 AM, glen wrote:
Right. I hope that's the case, not merely that some of us are more plastic, but
that perhaps any of us could even practice being more plastic. But that's just
hope ... hope can be debilitating.
I recently listened to Krista Tippet's interview with Desmond Tutu circa 2010 and he made an
important distinction between "optimism" and "hope". I wonder how much folks
here make their own distinction and if one is more prone to debilitation than the other?
--
glen
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