Negative expectations, Positive hope

I got nothing against folks who chase their dreams. We all have different dreams.

I like pitching products which I have a predictable grasp of, with a very low rate of error. Usually I'll include in the pitch, that where there's uncertainty, you should expect negative returns. That's just how I roll - you can HOPE for positive returns, but statistics often are very clear on the history of a thing, unless you are doing something very new. And if you are doing something new, that is not something to be expecting success from. So any positive hope MUST be coupled with explicit expectations of neutrality or failure, UNLESS the data provides an exception.

I don't particularly enjoy telling people to cheer up based on hope - I find that is quite a degenerate approach to life. Perhaps I am biased because I grew up in a country that governs based on a notion of the afterlife ... hahaha. Whatever the case, just not my flavour.