so. Do pessimists work harder?
I guess if they are pessimistic about everyone else but their own abilities they might
Apparently uncle Bruce only worked harder as a teenager. I of course only knew him as an adult and to me he never seemed to have any energy, he and his wife and son would visit our farm in the summer when we had all kinds of fresh vegetables in the garden and he loved to eat the fresh produce but didn’t seem to want to lift a finger to pick any. He would mostly lounge around and grumble. His wife (my aunt) was a mousy little woman with a tiny voice who moved very slowly, I suspect that she was on some kind of medication for her nerves that kept her moving so slowly. The only time I can clearly remember going with my parents to uncle Bruce’s house she was on the edge of her seat waiting when my father would finish a cigarette and she would immediately take the ash tray and dump it out and then wash it and bring it back to him. They were not a joy to be around, that’s for sure.