This article is adapted from "Why It Pays To Be an Optimist" by Martha E.

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One of the reasons I ask this question in the first place is that my natural tendency is to be an optimist.

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In general, Ajay chooses to be an optimist.

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For Lanier, with all of his musings on the present-day homogenizing of young people's social lives through Twitter and Facebook (and I agree with him, for he's so obviously correct about that), seems to desperately want to be an optimist in a world where -- if you accept any, most, or all of his premises -- there is no reason to be such.

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Said to be an eternal optimist who enjoys picnics.

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And I am an optimist, as well as my American colleague, and I believe that we will be able to reach compromise on these issues.

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