7.You will truly enjoy a surprise
And here come the benefits of being a pessimist.
Let’s make a parallel between an optimist and a pessimist for a better understanding of this scenario.
If you’re an optimist, if something that you’ve planned works out perfectly, of course, you’re satisfied and you feel good because everything went according to your plan.
But if you’re a pessimist and something goes right, you’ll be damn right surprised because you didn’t expect it to happen in a million years.
And that intense joy of a surprise is something an optimist can never experience if something goes well.
