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# The aim is not compulsory optimism. It is...
> The aim is not compulsory optimism. It is cognitive range: the capacity to perceive danger without becoming blind to possibility, to mourn without surrendering the future, and to choose which pathway receives the next repetition.
**Source:** [[livestreams/The Power of One Positive Thought — Attention, Neural Pathways, and Reassembly - Workbook|The Power of One Positive Thought — Attention, Neural Pathways, and Reassembly]]
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“The aim is not compulsory optimism. It is cognitive range: the capacity to perceive danger without becoming blind to possibility, to mourn without surrendering the future, and to choose which pathway receives the next repetition.”
— Bryant McGill
https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-aim-compulsory-optimism-receives-next-repetition
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