Theory on optimism and pessimism

Theory on optimism and pessimism by system_meltdown.

Theory on optimism and pessimism by system_meltdown.

The following article was written by me and has been a theory stuck in my head for a long time, I have only just tried spilling it out into words.

I know it is short as I have no idea how to make it longer without repeating what I have already written.

This is my theory on optimism and pessimism, it is quite biased towards my opinion and is based around the question 'Is the cup half empty or half full?'. This article also follows basic rules of maths.

According to people, if you answer this question with "Half full" you are optimistic, and if you answer it with "Half empty" you are pesimmistic.

I believe different. I believe if you answer with "Half full" you are a logical thinker and will understand the rest of this article. But if you answer "Half empty" you have no clue about your surroundings.

Now first off, my answer would be half full, and the explanation for this choice is this:

If you take a cup full of water and say that's one. Then, you take half out it becomes a half of one, 0.5, which is still a real number

If your answer is half empty I can show you why it would be wrong (in my eyes).

Take an empty cup which will be zero, and try and take half away, which would be half of zero, which isn't a number.

Therfore this shows the cup must be half full as half of zero is zero which we have already decleared as empty.

I shall end my article with this statement:
"It's your choice what you answer the question with, but please understand my point."