This is something that I argued during our Individual Dynamics (Organisation Behaviour) class.
We have been convincingly told that the person who thinks that the half filled is "Half Full" is an optimist and the one who thinks it is half empty is pessimist.
The argument against it is that the person who sees glass half full and gets happy is actually expecting the glass to be empty and hence happy that the glass is at least half full. On the other hand the person who sees the glass half empty is actually expecting the glass to be completely filled. He would then like to fill the rest of the glass. Hence, contrary to the popular opinion, the person who sees glass half empty is an optimist and the person who sees glass half full is a pessimist.
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* The name has been suggested by Piyush "Bhai" Chaurasiya.
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I think one who wants the glass to be fully filled but doesn't get unhappy with the half filled glass is an optimist. Because an optimist would never get unhappy whatever may be the reality. This disqualifies the person who gets unhappy by looking at the glass from being an optimist.
That is precisely why I avoided the term "Unhappy" while arguing for the "Half Empty" guy. The question is not whether a person gets happy or unhappy, the question is what the person notices when he looks at such glass.
Then how could you use "Happy" when you describe "Half Full" glass?
OK.Let us leave that Happy part aside.I will put a revised post.Does it still sound illogical to you?
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