A logical case (not the logical case) for optimism

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When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.

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That 99% of compulsive thinkers’ thinking is about themselves [and] that 99% of this self-directed thinking consists of imagining and then getting ready for things that are going to happen to them and then weirdly that if they stop to think about it that 100% of the things they spend 99% of their time and energy imagining and trying to prepare for all the contingencies and consequences are never good

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Saying it doesn’t make it so, except sometimes when it does. Like a coin flip that comes up heads five times in a row. An Amanuensis makes for a pneumonic midwife, so consider that or perhaps you are more enamored with a mental flight instructor with more amplitude than the situation might bear. An anagram of an acrobat whose tympanum has burst and can’t stand not being able to stand still at great heights before stepping out ever farther out onto that wire, is perhaps more your speed.