Learned optimism

I mean, and I think there's a flex, but there's actually an order, right? Because there are merits to having a pessimistic explanatory style or filter at moments and many benefits to having an optimistic explanatory style.

So a lot of this came out of my reading of Martin Sullivan's work decades ago, Learned Optimism was the popular book a couple decades ago.

And I think there's still a lot of wisdom in that that has held true.

But first we, before we kind of get to the, how it actually affects and how a leader needs to conduct themselves, you look at what the root causes of like, well, why when a leader comes in the room, if they are doing this, what's the reason for that? And certainly there's some obvious ones you wanted to, you know, sort of inspire some confidence.