“The greatest cause for optimism is . . . when our people come together. We see a lot of ourselves in each other – a striving entrepreneurial spirit, and optimism about the future.”
Yes, whether you're a sunny optimist or a gloomy pessimist may be determined more by your birthplace and your age than your attitude, as we'll be finding out in this programme.
There are plenty of pessimists born in the spring and true blue optimists in the winter And of course, your personality is defined by a lot more than just whether there's a lot of light or just a little when you're born.
He wants to root out the so-called conspiracy of optimism, in which officials, the armed forces and defence suppliers pretend that kit will be delivered much more cheaply than it in fact can be.
What keeps me going and what keeps me, strangely enough, is fundamentally an optimist is that I'm working as hard as I know how to on this in the most strategic way that we have found.
Psychologists have found that 80% of people have what they define as an optimism bias and that's regardless of whether they believe themselves to be more pessimistic or realistic.