KLPNO
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Hello everyone.
From the book Psychology of Hope by Charles Snyder.
I do not want to continue the tradition of bashing optimism for recent research suggests it plays a positive role in the lives of people. Furthermore, having been fed a steady diet of praise for optimism by social leaders such as Dale Carnegie and Henry Ford from industry, to Norman Vincent Peale and Robert H. Schuller from the pulpit, we have learned over the last several decades that optimism epitomizes the American spirit. Even today, optimism probably has positive connotations for most people. But there is an edge, an uneasiness about our advocacy of optimism. My sense is that we collectively still embrace optimism, as long as it is not equated with the unrealistic optimism associated with Pollyanna.
What does "edge" mean in the above context?
From the book Psychology of Hope by Charles Snyder.
I do not want to continue the tradition of bashing optimism for recent research suggests it plays a positive role in the lives of people. Furthermore, having been fed a steady diet of praise for optimism by social leaders such as Dale Carnegie and Henry Ford from industry, to Norman Vincent Peale and Robert H. Schuller from the pulpit, we have learned over the last several decades that optimism epitomizes the American spirit. Even today, optimism probably has positive connotations for most people. But there is an edge, an uneasiness about our advocacy of optimism. My sense is that we collectively still embrace optimism, as long as it is not equated with the unrealistic optimism associated with Pollyanna.
What does "edge" mean in the above context?
