Are you more likely to succeed in business if you hope for the best, or prepare for the worst?
Is your glass half-full or half-empty? We're said to be a nation of Eeyores whose gloomy outlook on life is summed up by philosopher Thomas Hobbes, the cheery soul who called human life 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short'. Pessimist Jon Moulton, chairman of Better Capital, agrees: 'He was a miserable devil, but in some ways it's true. If you're born in sub-Saharan Africa, that's rather accurate.'
But most of us are luckier than that. 'Think of the way our lives have improved beyond measure since Hobbes' time,' counters optimist Luke Johnson, chairman of Risk Capital Parters. 'That tells you we have grounds for optimism and we should not give way to feelings of gloom.'
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