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Letter from the Editor
The response of optimism
IN HIS ESSAY ABOUT “RESPONSE ABILITY” IN
this issue (page 70), our award-winning journal-
ist Jeremy Mercer tells an inspiring story about
research conducted by German psychologists.
They wanted to know whether we learn to help
others or whether that’s a natural instinct. The
psychologists brought together a group of 14- and
18-month-old toddlers and put them in situations
in which an adult was struggling to complete a
task—say, someone dropping a clothespin while
hanging laundry or struggling to open a door with
an armload of magazines. Amazingly, the children
inevitably tried to help. They would walk over and
pick up the clothespin or try to push open the door.
Children, the psychologists concluded, are natur-
ally helpful. They exhibit a high level of response ability.
Responsibility is more often perceived as a burden to be avoided. However, as
Mercer explains, breaking up the word presents an invitation to respond in any
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dlers instantly feel better when they help, and we all know how good it feels when
we give a nice present to a friend or loved one.
The power of response ability is the same as the power of optimism. Optimism is
a fundamental attitude. It’s not an opinion about reality; it’s a starting point for deal-
ing with it. At any moment, you can decide you’re in the best situation to handle a
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In this issue, we commemorate the English writer and philosopher Colin Wilson,
who recently passed away. Wilson spent much of his life arguing with 200 years of
European philosophy dominated by pessimism. From Romantics like Keats and
Byron to existentialists like Sartre and Camus, the message has been largely the
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live in misery knowing they can never fully and sustainably attain happiness. “This
pessimism is lying across modern civilization like some enormous fallen tree, and
somehow we’ve got to get a bulldozer and shift it out of the way,” Wilson wrote.
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from an interview with him on page 82. He argues that we can control our minds
and change our response. And response is the seed of Wilson’s call for optimism.
Trevor Blake would agree. The author of Three Small Steps: A Map to Success
in Business and Life sees controlling our response to negative situations as a key
element to success. Blake is about to publish a new book, Three Simple Steps to a
Winning Startup, and in this issue we announce a new online course with him (see
page 24). That may be the best way for us to become helpful, optimistic—and suc-
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COMPETITION
“My husband, Bobby, and I are
photographers who believe in love
and laughter. We are so lucky to get
to spend such intimate moments
with the people we photograph.
Their smiling faces certainly keep me
feeling optimistic!”
—Kolleen Kintz
Intelligent Optimist
Eva Reich
Pioneer
Hancock, Maine
How tangible is optimism?
Can you capture it in a photo?
INTELLIGENT OPTIMIST
Peace at home
Here at The Intelligent Optimist,
we’re curious what you’ll come up
with. We invite you to send in your
EVA REICH, DAUGHTER OF PSYCHOANALYST WILHELM REICH, LED A DIFFI-
cult, amazing and interesting life. She spent her last 30 years traveling the world most optimistic photos.
doing emotional therapy groups and teaching people about her father’s work as
well as her own energy work.
At age 78, on New Year's Day in 2001, Eva suffered a stroke of the spine. At
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plegic. She loved the outdoors and her old Maine farm, and continued to glow
with happiness to the very end of her life. Submit your photo to [email protected],
This picture shows her after her stroke, holding an anti-war protest sign in her and we may publish your photo in
bed, because she could not attend the protest but felt so strongly about peace. one of our upcoming issues.
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