Optimists look forward

Here is a subject I have harped on about before and it sort of backs up what I have said before on the topic.

Tali Sharot - The Optimism Bias

So the upshot of that, if I have heard that correctly is that all those folk in the financial markets need to have an electric current passed across their brains every half an hour to stop them getting ahead of themselves. I think you will find plenty of support for that!

I think it also proves optimists are blind fools. But I would rather be happy than right any day. Not that I do much of either these days