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slash impossible. Okay, so just think about this. Are you an optimist or a pessimist

about life and then about parenting? I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny, and I'm guessing, Danny, that you're pretty optimistic. I mean, you strike me as one of these guys that says, let's go. Isn't my hairy smile, John? Is that what it is? No, this is. You have an athletic energy about life. And I mean that, I don't think

anybody's ever told you that in a very complimentary way. Yeah, I appreciate it. I'll receive it,

but I don't think anyone has ever described it that way. Yeah. All right. Well, I'm an optimist.

Okay, sure. Yeah, I love to see the good in people. Love to be hopeful. And yeah, it's been, it been, it's been fun to talk about pessimism and

optimism with my kids while they grew up. I would say that my daughter was definitely an optimist

with me. We had fun doing that. My wife was more of a realist pessimist a little bit, and my son was probably more of a realist

with her as well.

So we kind of balanced each other out at home, and here we were very hopeful for things,

and my wife and son would kind of bring it down a bit and go, well, guys, you know, I mean, may not happen that way. Come on. But it's such good. We need both in conversation and we can learn from each other. Okay. As we interact with life. Except you've used optimist and realists, not a pessimist. You haven't talked about the value of a pessimist in that equation i used to think i was a

realist but i was really pretty negative about almost everything so i was i was a pessimist i made a

change man you you caught me yeah yeah pessimism and when it goes to negative there's a lot of

self-protectiveness to it okay and there's fear based behind it. And many times it's because of life experiences

or learn helplessness with certain things. And so it's driven by a certain emotion, and most of the

time it's self-protective. So that's on the pessimistic side. The realist side, they just want

people to live within the factual framework.

And our brain needs some of that. Okay. But the pessimistic it doesn't. So thanks for catching you.

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