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Instead, there was a litany of astonishing optimism.
Secondly, we need to aim off of the optimism of the generals.
We need to make sure that we're a little bit suspicious, that we understand that optimism is in the DNA of the military, that we don't respond to it with quite as much alacrity.
What we found is that only 25% of job successes are predicted by IQ, 75 percent of job successes are predicted by your optimism levels, your social support and your ability to see stress as a challenge instead of as a threat.
There was an energy there, an implacable optimism, a strange mixture of humility and daring.
And I just want to make it absolutely clear that he's a really bad example of the optimism bias, because he is in fact uniquely talented.
But private optimism about our own personal future remains persistent.
In fact, without the optimism bias, we would all be slightly depressed.
So optimism changes subjective reality.
Controlled experiments have shown that optimism is not only related to success, it leads to success.
Optimism leads to success in academia and sports and politics.
And maybe the most surprising benefit of optimism is health.
So all in all, optimism has lots of benefits.
But the question that was really confusing to me was, how do we maintain optimism in the face of reality?
Could we alter people's optimism bias by interfering with the brain activity in these regions?
Now we interfere with the region that we found to integrate negative information in this task, and the optimism bias grew even larger.
Then we interfered with the brain region that we found to integrate good news in this task, and the optimism bias disappeared.
And at this point we stopped and we asked ourselves, would we want to shatter the optimism illusion into tiny little bits?
If we could do that, would we want to take people's optimism bias away?
Well I've already told you about all of the benefits of the optimism bias, which probably makes you want to hold onto it for dear life.
This captain is going to use our findings on the optimism bias to try to explain to the firefighters why they think the way they do, to make them acutely aware of this very optimistic bias in humans.
So unrealistic optimism can lead to risky behavior, to financial collapse, to faulty planning.
The British government, for example, has acknowledged that the optimism bias can make individuals more likely to underestimate the costs and durations of projects.
So they have adjusted the 2012 Olympic budget for the optimism bias.
So what we would really like to do, is we would like to protect ourselves from the dangers of optimism, but at the same time remain hopeful, benefiting from the many fruits of optimism.
But the good news is that becoming aware of the optimism bias does not shatter the illusion.
And this is good because it means we should be able to strike a balance, to come up with plans and rules to protect ourselves from unrealistic optimism, but at the same time remain hopeful.
And this hope, this optimism, endured a year of turbulent transition.
One reason that there's this optimism is because, contrary to what many people have said, most Egyptians think things really have changed in many ways.
Well, I hope to have convinced you that progress is not a matter of faith or optimism, but is a fact of human history, indeed the greatest fact in human history.
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