I think that a mindset considered ‘poor’ would imply that it causes one to arrive at false conclusions more often.
If doomerism isn’t a good mindset, it should also—besides making one simply depressed and fearful / pessimistic about the future—be contradicted by empirical data, and the flow of events throughout time.
Personally, I think it’s pretty easy to show that pessimism (belief that certain objectives are impossible or doomed to cause catastrophic, unrecoverable failure) is wrong. Furthermore, and even more easily argued than that, is that belief that one’s objective is unlikely or impossible cannot cause one to be more likely to achieve it. I would define ‘poor’ mindsets to be equivalent to the latter to some significant degree.
I think that a mindset considered ‘poor’ would imply that it causes one to arrive at false conclusions more often.
If doomerism isn’t a good mindset, it should also—besides making one simply depressed and fearful / pessimistic about the future—be contradicted by empirical data, and the flow of events throughout time.
Personally, I think it’s pretty easy to show that pessimism (belief that certain objectives are impossible or doomed to cause catastrophic, unrecoverable failure) is wrong. Furthermore, and even more easily argued than that, is that belief that one’s objective is unlikely or impossible cannot cause one to be more likely to achieve it. I would define ‘poor’ mindsets to be equivalent to the latter to some significant degree.