Sumit Paul-Choudhury

I mean, as an infant, you have to be a hyperoptimist because you have to kind of believe that you can achieve these things. So children are hyperoptimistic, and that kind of tends to gradually wane over the course of our, as we get older, for various reasons. I mean, there are sort of a number of reasons why that might happen. One of them is just the accumulation of negative experience.

I mean, as an infant, you have to be a hyperoptimist because you have to kind of believe that you can achieve these things. So children are hyperoptimistic, and that kind of tends to gradually wane over the course of our, as we get older, for various reasons. I mean, there are sort of a number of reasons why that might happen. One of them is just the accumulation of negative experience.

I mean, as an infant, you have to be a hyperoptimist because you have to kind of believe that you can achieve these things. So children are hyperoptimistic, and that kind of tends to gradually wane over the course of our, as we get older, for various reasons. I mean, there are sort of a number of reasons why that might happen. One of them is just the accumulation of negative experience.

Over time, it seems like we've become better understanding what negative experiences are telling us about the world. When we're very young, we tend to ignore them. We kind of pay a lot of attention to the positives, but we brush off the negatives.

Over time, it seems like we've become better understanding what negative experiences are telling us about the world. When we're very young, we tend to ignore them. We kind of pay a lot of attention to the positives, but we brush off the negatives.

Over time, it seems like we've become better understanding what negative experiences are telling us about the world. When we're very young, we tend to ignore them. We kind of pay a lot of attention to the positives, but we brush off the negatives.

And again, if you know any kids, you know that kids forget a bad thing pretty quickly, but they remember when they're successful and they remember how to build on that. Over time, we start to become better at absorbing negative information because as we become more independent, we're going to encounter more situations where we need to be good at handling them. That's one.

And again, if you know any kids, you know that kids forget a bad thing pretty quickly, but they remember when they're successful and they remember how to build on that. Over time, we start to become better at absorbing negative information because as we become more independent, we're going to encounter more situations where we need to be good at handling them. That's one.

And again, if you know any kids, you know that kids forget a bad thing pretty quickly, but they remember when they're successful and they remember how to build on that. Over time, we start to become better at absorbing negative information because as we become more independent, we're going to encounter more situations where we need to be good at handling them. That's one.

We build better models of the world. We understand how the world works better. And we kind of get different feedback from the adults around us. We don't get told, like, you know, you can do anything. Just put your mind to it. You start getting, you know, hopefully constructive criticism about what you're doing.

We build better models of the world. We understand how the world works better. And we kind of get different feedback from the adults around us. We don't get told, like, you know, you can do anything. Just put your mind to it. You start getting, you know, hopefully constructive criticism about what you're doing.

We build better models of the world. We understand how the world works better. And we kind of get different feedback from the adults around us. We don't get told, like, you know, you can do anything. Just put your mind to it. You start getting, you know, hopefully constructive criticism about what you're doing.

So eventually kind of, you know, those experiences gradually mount up and they essentially set your adult level of optimism. From there on, it fluctuates a bit with life experience. And, you know, depending on how well or badly things go for you, it does go up and down a bit. Trying to move the needle on optimism is not that easy. It's not a short-term thing.

So eventually kind of, you know, those experiences gradually mount up and they essentially set your adult level of optimism. From there on, it fluctuates a bit with life experience. And, you know, depending on how well or badly things go for you, it does go up and down a bit. Trying to move the needle on optimism is not that easy. It's not a short-term thing.

So eventually kind of, you know, those experiences gradually mount up and they essentially set your adult level of optimism. From there on, it fluctuates a bit with life experience. And, you know, depending on how well or badly things go for you, it does go up and down a bit. Trying to move the needle on optimism is not that easy. It's not a short-term thing.

I think that, and this is kind of moving away from the research really into what I concluded, I think that if you do various practices, you can probably improve the way that you look at the world, particularly if you're talking about more intellectual kind of problems rather than emotional, intuitive things.

I think that, and this is kind of moving away from the research really into what I concluded, I think that if you do various practices, you can probably improve the way that you look at the world, particularly if you're talking about more intellectual kind of problems rather than emotional, intuitive things.

I think that, and this is kind of moving away from the research really into what I concluded, I think that if you do various practices, you can probably improve the way that you look at the world, particularly if you're talking about more intellectual kind of problems rather than emotional, intuitive things.

I think you can, but I think it probably takes a lot of repetition over a lot of time, and the chances are if you haven't been doing it for a lot of your life already, you may not make that much difference.

I think you can, but I think it probably takes a lot of repetition over a lot of time, and the chances are if you haven't been doing it for a lot of your life already, you may not make that much difference.