Chuck Bryan

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Dad had the strong belief that the devil was attacking us.

32 years total law enforcement experience.

My dad had a whole other life that we never knew about.

OK, Chuck, we said we're going to talk about some variations.

And I think one thing we should point out is that optimism itself is almost a variation on a theme.

When people say like somebody's just happy all the time, they're just going through life, they have like the best attitude.

That's actually not optimism.

Optimism is either, like we said, you are expecting good things to happen down the pike.

Right.

Yeah.

That's a good thing to point out for sure.

Some of these variations that you mentioned we were going to talk about, I thought all these were pretty interesting.

One is called depressive realism.

And I think they all have their place.

Depressive realism is this idea that if you're maybe a little depressed or moderately depressed, then you're actually a realist and you have a way more accurate view of reality.

the real world around you.

In other words, you're not that Pollyanna.