[formatkaka]

Frankl in Man's search for meaning writes that in Nazi concentration camps "Some men lost all hope, but it was the incorrigible optimists who were the most irritating companions."

Seems like acc to Dr. Frankl incorrigible pessimists are better companions than incorrigible optimists.

[alexpetralia]

It's literally in the exact same book that he writes that those who lost hope died first. Hope is what keeps us going.

[formatkaka]

The quote I mentioned was written from a different perspective.

He is talking about his companions. If we try to understand the author's perspective, he was somewhere between the spectrum of men who lost all hope and incorrigible optimists.

For someone like that, I believe the incorrigible optimists would be much more irritating. It's like, there are so many problems and instead of fighting them, the optimists don't want to acknowledge they are there.

[fwip]

It probably depends on your situation. Most of life isn't the literal Holocaust.