Churchill's Optimist and Pessimist in 3D

Today I saw the following picture posted by Laurens and could not help commenting :)

Source: Laurens Reinier Korporaal

Sir Winston Churchill was great and brilliant. Therefore the above is a great and brilliant example of rhetoric. My opinion, such a scaling into optimists and pessimists is good for verbal fencing. It is concise, sharp and thus staggering. Say, snappy. But yet it is good for nothing in real life mining the opportunities. Why? Because it is 2D, i.e. "flat", and I would suggest using at least 3D picture of the multidimensional reality and also start allowing for more valuable post factum experience.

People all are wide spectrum and involve dynamic character. Absolute optimism and pessimism are the extreme flanges (such as infra and ultra) of the disposition range. So instead of considering just the two poles: the pessimist and the optimist, I insist on the approach based on at least four poles, namely, the "unhappy" and "happy" optimists and pessimists. If the these are graded by their utility from the worst to the best the lay-out comes as follows:

1. An unhappy optimist = the one who sees the opportunity in every difficulty but every time cannot improve the former because of the scope of the latter. It does mean his/her perception of opportunities is absolutely slant and overly. This associate leads to danger.
2. An unhappy pessimist = the one who sees the same difficulty in every new opportunity. One day the pessimist realises his/her personal restrictions and becomes disturbed. This mate soon becomes a burden.
3. A happy optimist = the one that regularly seizes the opportunities and gets success now and then. This optimist is resourceful especially in the terms of time. Do not learn from him/her - you are wasting your time then. Join him/her.
4. A happy pessimist = the one who is good at finding the difficulty in every opportunity and due to his experience becomes invaluable critic of any project. Listen to him/her but be fast if he/she becomes slow.

I believe the concept should be well clear by now. Although, here is a control question: Why did I put the "happy" pessimist the last in the row?..

Alexey O. Chepok

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