It's good to be optimistic to a delusional degree, amirite?

Well you know what they say, ignorance is a bliss 😂

by Wildermancandic 6 hours ago

the delusionally optimistic response to this would be "no I'm actually going to learn more information than anyone else in the whole world"

by Anonymous 6 hours ago

Honestly, more power to them if they put in the effort

by Kimstiedemann 5 hours ago

More information would include learning depressing information.

by Worldly-Rub 5 hours ago

You definitely need it to accomplish things in life and believe in yourself. I agree

by Anonymous 5 hours ago

You don't even need to be delusional. There's more to be optimistic about today than at any other point in human history. Let that sink in--you're living in the best time yet, and the future will be even better!

by Anonymous 5 hours ago

I actually think the future will be incredibly chaotic and scary for a while, but we will get through it and end up ok, and then things will be very interesting

by Anonymous 5 hours ago

Sure, but at what point in the last several centuries couldn't you have said the same thing?

by Anonymous 5 hours ago

Hard disagree. There's a healthy and beneficial level of optimism. But delusional level optimism to the point of toxic positivity is usually a coping mechanism for people who cannot process normal "negative" emotions like sadness and anger. Except those emotions don't go away, they just get repressed. And without healthy ways of processing these pent up repressed emotions will just build up year after year until one days it all hits you like a brick wall.

by Macywhite 4 hours ago

Your main point here is just that "it's fun to live in a delusion."

by DutyDisastrous6617 4 hours ago

It is though

by Anonymous 3 hours ago

Absolutely not to a delusional degree, as this is a recipe for depression when a realistic person realizes they're not even close to the delusion BUT... we do need an optimistic bias about ourselves, or it is easy to slide into depression/ nihilism.

by Michellekohler 3 hours ago

It is certainly better than the inverse. Someone who truly believes that they can achieve the impossible, like becoming a professional athlete, and dedicates their life to it can often achieve great things even if they don't succeed at their ultimate goal. In contrast, someone who believes they could never achieve the easily achievable will always achieve less than they otherwise could.

by Alone_Barracuda_677 3 hours ago

I'm going to completely disagree with that, just seems like a recipe for disaster. It's good to be optimistic and realistic.

by Madisoncremin 3 hours ago

I don't mean blatantly contradicting present reality What do you mean then, when you say "to a delusional degree"? Because contradicting present reality sounds exactly like a delusion to me.

by Destinykreiger 3 hours ago

example: There's a dancing leprechaun that always dances in the exact overlap of everyone's visual blindspots. That's why we can't see him, but he's still there It could also contradict future reality but not present reality example: In 10 minutes the world is going to explode

by Anonymous 3 hours ago

A delusion blatantly contradicts present reality, by definition.

by Standard_Log 2 hours ago

example 1: There's a dancing leprechaun that always dances in the exact overlap of everyone's visual blindspots. That's why we can't see him, but he's still there example 2: In 10 minutes the world is going to explode

by Anonymous 2 hours ago

You kinda have to be sometimes.

by Anonymous 2 hours ago