"Alex Mandossian Answers the In Search Of Heroes Program Questions 'What is your concept of optimism?'" by Ralph Zuranski
Well, optimism to me is that there is hope! If you look at the great spiritual leaders in history, Confucius, Muhammad, Moses, Jesus, or some of the more contemporary leaders, even those who have not had any spiritual basis and have had a negative impact on society through war and toil, they all sell the same thing. They are all promoting one thing.
It’s a four letter word and it’s called HOPE! They sell hope. Optimism is about hope. Hope is sold in various different ways. Hoping there is a better way leads to something else which is expectation.
I believe the lowest level is having hope. That’s the starting point. Then it goes to expectation.
Now, when I ask you to hope to have something, that is a whole different frame of mind than expecting to get it. But, it has to start with hope. It has to start with a seed of hope. Then it leads to expectation. So that is optimism…going from hope, to expectation to having an optimistic point of view.
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