Are you a Definite or Indefinite Optimist, or Pessimist?

Luke Burgis
3 min readJul 20, 2023

The approach you adopt makes all the difference.

A scene from the early 80’s television show “Knight Rider”

The matrix below is from entrepreneur Peter Thiel’s bestselling book Zero to One. It describes different stances that a person can take about the future.

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Luke Burgis

Author of “WANTING: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life.” Find more at read.lukeburgis.com