There are nothing right and wrong in our societies with its binary situation and position, so that, in my final speech, I will do an opposite action to ask you to be a pessimist and not to be an optimist.
First at all, do you know what pessimism is? Actually the pessimism is come from a Latin word “pessimus”, the meaning is worst, and it is a state of mind which negatively colors the perception of life, especially with regard to future events. And then, the optimism is the opposite meaning of it. And so, most of the people they will just ask you to be optimism and not to feel so sad about something because they think that the pessimism is always sad, sorrow, suffer, panic and also bringing a lot of negative influences. But, if you are thinking like this, then I have to tell you that you are totally wrong with it, and actually the pessimists are not just always feels sad, and the sadness is not accompany with pessimists, because pessimists are just thinking a lot of things and trying to solve the problem. In fact, maybe their face gestures are just seemed like sad but they are not sad. So, please do not affect by the people who always ask you to be optimism because actually pessimists are not as the people said.
In the definition of the pessimism, although it is mean worst, but actually it is having a lot of advantages to be a pessimist and in the working place it is also got priority. Throughout the history, pessimistic disposition has had effects on all major areas of thinking. And now, I will show you what are the advantages of pessimism and actually the pessimists are the minority in our society. So, there is a picture that filled with half glass of water. What do you think about it? Is it half full or half empty? Actually this is an investigation that to test whether you are an optimist or pessimist. According to this theory, the half full is represented as optimism, and half empty is pessimism. In this investigation, most of the people will say it is half full and it is show that the half empty is minority, so I will use the snowball effect with the advantages of pessimism to convince you again.
At the beginning, do you know pessimism have different types? Actually, it can be philosophical pessimism, environmental pessimism, cultural pessimism, psychology of pessimism and so on. First, the philosophical pessimism, it is similar with the definition of pessimism, but not identical idea that life has a negative value and world is not as bad as it could possibly be. Although they think about the worst part of the future, but they are not trying to believe it. Second is the environmental pessimism, it is believed that environmentalism is inconsistent with the capitalism, and so they will always think that the resources of the earth will disappear one day, but the capitalism will not. Thirdly, the cultural pessimism, it will show us that golden age of culture is the past, and current generation is fit only for dumb down and cultural careerism. They are using the cultural to be a selling point of our society. Lastly, as the psychology of pessimism, we can know that pessimists maybe will suffer with their emotional pain or even biology with their consideration, but they are often providing arguments and their understanding to the reality of the world. According to this kind of pessimism, we can see that they will think about the future, cultural, environmental, and society with their scarifications of mental depression.
In addition, I will show you some cases and the contrast between the optimism and pessimism. First, we can use the first war as an example and people are having positive action to start the war, because they just think that war can bring them the lands and mines, and never think about failure, with this, they are holding the optimism mind. And then, it had caused some nations collapse with the invasion and the death of people. But to the pessimism, they think about the consequences, failure and the entire different situation, and then, they will not start the war with its foresight. It is reduced the war between the nation of the world. And then, the 911 terrorists attack and the May 13 of our country, the attackers are also having the positive action to show the people that they still can do such the things to show their power. It is all because of the optimism mind to cause this kind of issues happened. Maybe it is all about the affairs, so I will show other cases in the working places.
According to the business research studies show that pessimism has helped us to see things more accurately and also increases our perception of danger, sensitizes us to the potential problems. Besides that, it is also shows that pessimists are generally better than optimists at remembering negative feedback, judging how much skill they have, and sizing up the extent to which they either succeeded or failed. And the book, called “Ratio” is also show that when they want to come out a price, the optimists are less accurate in their assessments and expectations than the pessimists. Furthermore, there are still a lot of novels are edited by pessimists such as the Lust caution and The hours, their authors, Zhang Ai Ling and Michael Cunningham are also pessimists, and their works were awarded by Pulitzer Price and Oscar. So, all of this are showing that the advantages to be a pessimist.
At last, I think that it is good to having pessimism mind and become a pessimist although it is minority. It is because the pessimists will think about future and the consequences of some events, and also like to sacrifice themselves to the society and the company. Once again, is there a half full or half empty water in the glass? Confusing now? So, I think you will also be a pessimist as well, thank you.
*Acctually, in our society, it is need to have both pessimism and optimism, because we need to have the pessimism mind to think about the future and the consequences of a lot of issues and social problems, but it is also need the optimism mind to make the action to be positive with the bipolar and binary situation.
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