And they overvalue the effect that their optimism or pessimism will have on the outcome.

My mom used to tell me that "worrying will not change the outcome one bit". The same goes for optimism.

Of course, my mom also told me that I could be whatever I wanted to be, and Daniel Craig got to be James Bond and I didn't so what did she know, right?

"turn the experience into the defining event of my life" is also positive thinking, it's called "peak performance" in positive thinking.

It's also called "hindsight in 20/20".

You know who doesn't turn the experience into the defining event" of their lives? The positive thinkers who didn't make it.

Stockdale's comments are easy to make because he got out. It's the story every single motivational speaker tells, but only after they've survived.

I've known a fair number of pessimists who didn't make it.

Some people shrink from the fight because victory is impossible.

I'm with the martial arts masters on this one. If you fight and lose, fight again, lose better.

In sparring we say, "Invest in loss". It's a philosophy that has led to a lot of important wins.

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That's what fueled the Gold Rush of '49.

The more he fantasizes about that woman, the more he jerks off to her image, in the long-run -- the even less likely he'll be prepared to deal with her in real life.

And goes on to develop a sincere interest in ethics in game journalism.

You should be negative.

Positively.

That would have been true last decade. It's changed.

it is stupid that a small error without much consequence ruin your life.

Come on. Tell us. What did you do?

Seriously though. I'm not sure how you think life works, but small errors without consequence ruin lives all the time. "I only had three beers" or "I forgot to wear a rubber" are small errors.

The only question I have about this law is how in the world could it NOT end up being abused? This law is designed to be abused.

The law does not advocate removal of information, only how and when it is indexed and presented.

Wow. That is a very interesting and barely existent distinction.

Yes to the right to be forgotten.

I wish memories had a right to be forgotten. Think of all the livers that would be saved.

#NotYourTablet

It really isn't. It has something to do with codecs or driver layers or something. I finally had to break down and buy an iPad Mini for cat videos and to snort coke off of.

A MacBook Air or MacBook Pro running Logic Pro X is what I see most musicians using in the field.

Take another look. Seriously.

A perfect chance to tighten the fences keeping the citizens in check.

I'm not disagreeing with you, but the idea that you have to keep Canadians "in check" is pretty funny. I've lived in Canada and have never met a people who were less "out of check".

I mean, what are there, about four homicides a year in Ottawa? And three of those are probably mercy killings. The other was a guy who wore a Marian Hossa jersey to an Ottawa Senators' game. Even criminals in Canada are polite.