The Squid of Despair
Unscripted musings on business life, leadership, creativity, transformation and all the myriad of other work-life events that get in the way of a good night's sleep. The Squid of Despair is a conceptual summation of what can go wrong, and often does, with mind-mapping or other creative techniques. Born out of an idea for a book back in 2010, David and Peter have now made this mythical beast rise once again, phoenix like (from under the ocean waves, so a bit soggy probably), to explore all matters relating to 'business life, leadership, creativity, transformation and all the myriad of other work-life events that get in the way of a good night’s sleep' in the form of an unusual podcast
The Squid of Despair
Squid #8 - Optimism - The Argument For and Against
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David Ayling-Smith and Peter Taylor
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Season 1
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Episode 8
Optimism is an attitude reflecting a belief or hope that the outcome of some specific endeavour, or outcomes in general, will be positive, favorable, and desirable. A common idiom used to illustrate optimism versus pessimism is a glass filled with water to the halfway point: an optimist is said to see the glass as half full, while a pessimist sees the glass as half empty.
- Can you be overly optimistic?
- Can you be overly pessimistic? Or even realistic?
And how do these two worlds balance each other?
DAS gets back to insulting Peter (encouraged by a listener he alleges) and Peter goes down the path of Nuns and happiness (and he has no-one but himself to blame for this)
