Are optimism and pessimism two sides of the same coin and come

No, it's about reality itself, part of the human experience is made of the part in us that is capable of feeling positive and negative feelings, whichever we feel more dominantly is entirely dependent on the way we choose to filter the
information we analyze from external stimuli, a pessimist will choose to compute things with an inclination to reach a negative conclusion and an optimist with an inclination towards a positive one.

An optimist knows that good and happiness is of your own making and choose to see what naturally feels positive and good, a pessimist is someone who's stuck in the mind and tries to reach some ultimate truth or knowledge with intelligence alone forsaking his feelings and thus getting stuck in a loophole forever trying to understand the truth or meaning without the basic means to do it.

Your example is vain and has nothing to do with morality, because it neglects a thousand different variables that make people choose what it is they choose, it has nothing to do with optimism and pessimism because no one will choose simply by those variables you gave no matter if he is a pessimist or an optimist but by many others as well.

>>1438529

>but by many others as well.

Agreed.

>An optimist knows that good and happiness is of your own making and choose to see what naturally feels positive and good

Not necessarily true - but belief in ones own chosen ethos and on the other side, cynicism, does seem like the major struggle of life. Risk taking behaviour is part of this

>>1437523
no thats bullshit the world isnt all dialectics there are preferences and direction. look at the binary case for existence. desirableness and preferability built out of axioms being 1 and anything we discard along the way as inferior ulternatives being a 0. we synth forward through history.

just because there is a winner doesnt neccessitate a loser

stupid retarded controlling eastern philosophy sees the world in this bipolar ying yang crap. its garbage. retarded (literal technical term - delays and inhibits progress) and it infects the west which has always been shit stained with weakness. from the elders through to the youngers, across the board.

>>1438598
If you define the unreasonable inclination to not take risks as cowardice and a contemptible vice than I agree that it's a part of a cynic's cognitive process, the defining variable to one's pessimism or optimism is virtue and state of mind.

What can you possibly risk? Your life will end sooner or later, you can hold all you want to the physical but you shall die one day non the less, better to be inclined to take reasonable risks than to be too afraid to do anything and achieve nothing, In the end everything deals with risk taking because as you choose one thing over another you risk to loss or gain different outcomes, pessimism and optimism are about virtues and states of mind, optimism being the virtue, pessimism being the vice.

>>1438657
Sein-zum-Tode

Its a shame Heidegger was a Nazi.

>>1438681
Exactly

>>1438529
>An optimist knows that good and happiness is of your own making and choose to see what naturally feels positive and good, a pessimist is someone who's stuck in the mind and tries to reach some ultimate truth or knowledge with intelligence alone forsaking his feelings and thus getting stuck in a loophole forever trying to understand the truth or meaning without the basic means to do it.
Wow, that's not biased at all.

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>>1438712
Sounds like debbie downer shilling to me.

>>1438712
It's not biased if it's the truth, being a pessimist is a vice, only through virtue will you attain happiness.

>>1438681
>Its a shame Heidegger was a Nazi.

Why? Who gives a shit.

>>1438638
t. Nietzche

Optimism inspires Self Confidence
Pessimism inspires Self Doubt
People who lack self doubt can preform better than thoes who don't

Pessimism prevents Over Confidence
Pessimism allows you to expect the worst, should the worst happen you'd be prepared

Optimism : Allows more success
Pessimism: Prevents more failure

Now comes the question
Which choice yields out the most convenient result in a given situation?

If, somehow, there is no clear difference between the two choices, pick Optimism, It is possible to make the correct choices unconsciously under optimistic impressions
Also you won't feel like shit under any stress