Given the choice, would you rather hang out with optimists or pessimists? It seems like a simple choice doesn’t it? Wouldn’t we all choose a life uplifted by rubbing shoulders with perpetually sunny cheery glass-half-full types over one dragged down and depressed by those who always expect to lose a fiver and find a shirt button?
Laurence Shorter’s book ‘The Optimist‘ is a one man quest to uncover the secret of optimism and is based on the premise that optimists have better lives – or maybe optimists just cope better when faced with adversity. That’s part of the problem; it’s quite hard to get a clear idea of why Shorter really wants to discover the secret of positivity. He believes that if he can become an optimist, then his life will be better and he will be more successful.
