Both optimism and pessimism are useful depending on ones' circumstances. For some far-end examples, optimism is useful in emergency survival situations (the second most important factor being shared bodily warmth), and pessimism is useful in engineering design ('cause if you know every little thing that can go wrong, you can prepare for them at least a little).
The success of the "nice guy" strategy depends on the circumstances that one finds oneself in. Cooperative situations generally reward being nice (at least to a select set of people), while individual-scale competitive situations generally do not.
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Date: 2007-10-29 12:19 pm (UTC)The success of the "nice guy" strategy depends on the circumstances that one finds oneself in. Cooperative situations generally reward being nice (at least to a select set of people), while individual-scale competitive situations generally do not.