Mark Pollock and Simone George : A love letter to realism in a time of grief

Mark Pollock and Simone George at TED2018  (transcript)
A love letter to realism in a time of grief
Summary
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This was a shocking story. It's because there are many important things for the living, for example, those are love, optimism, and something else, though, realism that we must dislike or think that we want to run away from has been important to live. We have to accept the brutal facts thus we keep hope alive.

The optimists rely on hope alone and they risk being disappointed and demoralized, but realists have managed to resolve the tension between acceptance and hope by running them in parallel and it creates identities for life that is why to live. It means that not to change our circumstances but to challenge to change ourselves.

Acceptance is tough and severe. We are alive to help it and this is something that we are imposed as humans.

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realism  /noun/ the attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly.
demoralize /verb/ cause (someone) to lose confidence or hope; dispirit.