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For me, it's even easier. Pessimism isn't even an option to me -- its a failure. If I've become so snowballed that I can't think positively, I failed somewhere in the chain of events to begin fixing them. This has only happened a few times in my life, and I recognized it and began (far too late, of course) and began fixing it.
I've got 50 years on this world (maybe) and there's no fuckin' way I'm going to waste it being upset that things didn't go my way or that people didn't react how I'd planned. I already wasted 17-18 years doing that, and I'm sure as hell not going back. It's so much easier to be happy about the things that happen and learn from them. I, too, get the adrenaline rush when I feel something 'broken' and it works very well for my personality and my career. If it's not going my way, I'll try 1000 ways under the sun to fix it, and then a few hundred other last ditch efforts before I even think about slowing down. I may not be the most intelligent person or even the most motivated, but I'm resourceful and I'm dedicated. So the optimism/pessimism question never even comes up -- I just fix things when they break and move on with my life.
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"I'm typing on a computer of science, which is being sent by science wires to a little science server where you can access it. I'm not typing on a computer of philosophy or religion or whatever other thing you think can be used to understand the universe because they're a poor substitute in the role of understanding the universe which exists independent from ourselves." - Willravel
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