{"id":1036,"date":"2016-06-06T12:13:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T09:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2017-07-14T22:55:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T19:55:29","slug":"the-possibility-of-optimism-the-optimism-of-possibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/the-possibility-of-optimism-the-optimism-of-possibility\/","title":{"rendered":"The possibility of optimism (the optimism of possibility)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-977\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/MG_8113-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dolphins_group_blog\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/MG_8113-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/MG_8113-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nIs the glass half full or half empty?<\/p>\n<p>The pessimist sees what&#8217;s present today and can only imagine eventual decline. The glass is already half empty and it&#8217;s only going to get worse.<\/p>\n<p>The optimist understands that there&#8217;s a difference between today and tomorrow. The glass is half full, with room for more. The vision is based on possibility, the future tense, not the present one.<\/p>\n<p>Pessimists have trouble making room for possibility, and thus possibility has trouble finding room for pessimists.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as we realize that there is a difference between right now and what might happen next, we can move ourselves to the posture of possibility, to the self-fulfilling engine of optimism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the glass half full or half empty? The pessimist sees what&#8217;s present today and can only imagine eventual decline. The glass is already half empty and it&#8217;s only going to get worse. The optimist understands that there&#8217;s a difference between today and tomorrow. The glass is half full, with room for more. The vision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[714,715,269,668,473,732,685,261,90,461,574,487,507,182,327,293,162,242,440,288,248,720,722,716,717,462,471,514,549,224,445,496,550,325,120,252,551,725,727,726,459,683,679,517,719,575,622,621,183,555,651,652,681,680,682,116,117,600,548,570,547,527,678,684,674,677,676,675,672,670,671,669,667,592,653,566,718,673,723,571,654,660,657,659,658,655,34,650,572,567,569,568,553,552,701,691,695,692,698,687,697,693,699,689,700,702,696,690,688,694,706,598,705,708,593,591,710,707,594,703,711,597,709,704,585,595,596,589,590,586,588,587,599,644,645,199,56,565,577,576,580,581,582,583,584,721,712,623,601,713],"yst_prominent_words":[1374,1375,1372,1371,1377,1008,1373,892,1376],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1218,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}