I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
“I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death.”
“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”