You create circuitry within your brain to position each morning to reveal opportunity instead of threat. The pessimist has red. Learn to Be Optimistic Optimism can be learned. Of course, the optimist must be aware that merely setting a course along the compass point in no way guarantees the arrival at the desired destination. But not to set the course at all gives little if any chance of success.
Optimism appears as a moral imperative.
It is my optimistic forecast that knowledge is the key to optimism. Both are miserably wrong. Ignorance creates entirely the wrong atmosphere for having a good day. It is knowledge and the confidence it inspires that allows the dawn to arrive full of hope. We are afraid of what we don't know.