Le Ceek: Blind Optimism

Noam Chomsky and climate change

I once e-mail Noam Chomsky.

The issue centered around climate change and the leaked e-mails from the University of East Anglia. You may remember that the Research Department, the leading research facility on the issue, falsified data surrounding climate change and the global warming debate to make the situation look dire.

This is the research report I sent my good mate, NC , by Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas (formerly of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Mount Wilson Observatory), who take a historic view of the matter, over a 1,000-yr period: http://www.int-res.com/articles/cr2003/23/c023p089.pdf. They conclude that “across the world, many records reveal that the 20th century is probably not the warmest nor unique extreme climatic period of the last millennium“. After reading the report this is the response I received:

From: chomsky@MIT.EDUTo: femiopaneye@hotmail.comSubject: Re: Dissenting view on climate changeDate: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 19:35:03 -0500

There is an overwhelming scientific consensus on the issue, and as on almost all topics, there are a few dissenters. All agree that there is a range of error. The consensus prediction could be too alarmist, or they could be understated. You can carry out the cost-benefit analysis for making a decision about how to respond.

NC

I disagree. And he was wrong (not sure if he’s changed his opinion since). But it doesn’t detract from the fact that as a linguist and political commentator he stands in a class of his own. I highly recommend Manufacturing Consent. I dedicate this post to him.

Introducing Le Ceek

I messaged Le Ceek the other day and after a brief discussion I asked how life was. The response shocked me: “Life is always good…” Shocked because this is how I wish I reasoned. Shocked because this is ultimately the person I hope to be, the attitude I hope to develop.

It reinforced a concept that I know to be true, a concept that I read about a while ago about successful people: to be successful, one must be eternally optimistic. One must always see the glass is half full even when situations are going against you. I’d term blind optimism as an enhanced form of optimism possessed by highly successful people. They don’t need everyone else around them to agree with them. They don’t require the blessing of those around them, because their inner being is fine tuned to always remain at an optimal state.

Optimism is a mental attitude or world view that interprets situations and events as being best (optimized), so that in some way that may not be fully comprehended the present moment is in an optimum state. The concept is extended to include the hope that future conditions will unfold as optimal.

If your mindset is generally positive, if you’re generally always in an optimistic state, your worldview will be too and you will therefore be able to deal with any situation that arises.

Let me demonstrate:

The other day a friend called me, she was down. Following a 30-minute conversation she stated that her mood had been lifted and she was happy. Nothing had physically altered in her 3-D reality except her state, her mental attitude. Suddenly she was no longer depressed, and decided to get up and do something about her circumstances, rather than sit around and mope.

Now imagine existing in a perpetual mind state in which you’re generally positive, optimistic and hopeful about your future. You will be absolutely unstoppable!

There is nothing in life that you can’t achieve. Everything that you want will be yours.

What does this have to do with Noam Chomsky?

Well, I think it’s cool that I received an e-mail from him, I wanted to share this with the world. And also because this post is a very mild study on the structure of the term, blind optimism, so I thought it’d be apt to mention him. And now that you have his e-mail address, holla at him!

For the record Le Ceek is a real individual. This person is highly successful, driven, with a high level of EQ. I wish to mask this person’s identity, so from now on they’ll be referred to simply as: Le Ceek. This is the first of many Le Ceek related posts.

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