Chuck Bryan

Because you're not always going to be great.

No, that is a good thing to teach a kid for sure.

Yeah.

There's also tragic optimism.

It was coined by a guy named Viktor Frankl, who is a psychiatrist who actually did.

He was interned in a Nazi concentration camp and lost essentially everyone he knew.

And he wrote a book called Man's Search for Meaning from that.

And it's like a seminal book in search for the meaning of life.

But he coined tragic optimism to basically say this is the mindset where you are aware that in life you're going to suffer pain, guilt, loss, and that you can accept that that's true and still seek the most positive outcomes you can get.

I like that one too.

Try to be happy even knowing that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I like that.

And then what's the last one, Chuck?

Cultural pessimism.

I'm not going to editorialize here.

That's basically just like the belief that the society was better at a different time.

You know, decades ago, everything was great in this country and everything is just going straight down the toilet today.

It's called getting old.