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By Laurence Shorter

In terms of undesirable information, we’ve by no means had it so good.

Laurence Shorter is feeling apprehensive. whenever he opens a newspaper or activates the radio he reveals one more reason to be tearful. It’s time to make a metamorphosis. It’s time to be optimistic!

His plan is easy:
1. the best way to bounce off the bed within the morning.
2. safe own happiness.
3. shop the world.

The Optimist charts Shorter’s bold, year-long, overseas quest to find the world’s so much confident thinkers, together with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jung Chang, Matthieu Ricard, California’s well known browsing Rabbi, and invoice Clinton. yet optimism doesn’t come effortless, and Shorter’s get to the bottom of is demonstrated at each nook: through a flagging occupation, a stricken love affair, and his ever-pessimistic dad.

The Optimist is a hilarious and finally life-affirming stand opposed to the grind of daily strife, jam-packed with purposes to be pleased.

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I winked. ’ I found myself a place next to the famous writer, eating crabmeat sandwiches from a paper plate. Lady Antonia sat behind her sunglasses, peering over them from time to time to observe her guests and the cows which were circling our canopy. A spirit of raw nerves jangled just below the surface of the happy scene. Cousins and step-sons glanced nervously over at Pinter, as if the great writer might suddenly wave his stick and cast them into the outer darkness. ‘Lovely cake,’ he muttered, with a grandfatherly smile.

What if – instead of a complicated matrix of cross-referenced problems and experts – I simply interviewed people who were famous? Wouldn’t that be easier? They didn’t have to be massively well-known, just interesting enough so that the public would pay attention. Sure, these people might not be the ideal optimists I was originally planning to meet, but then neither was Tim Smit. Now that I was officially writing a book, I had a perfectly good excuse to approach anyone I wanted to. Anyone. The first thing I did was send an email to the President of Iran, Mr Ahmadinejad.

Oh, yes,’ he said. 34 LAURENCE SHORTER ‘Yes, and people are too afraid of death. ’ Dad rolled his eyes ominously. ’ He turned around to strain his tea. 2 Sir, As I am only 12 years old I don’t normally speak my mind. But I have always wondered why everyone is suddenly saying that we will all die in less than 50 years. Frankly it worries me that everyone is so scared . . I think that everyone should stop worrying. MATHILDA SMITH, Poole, Dorset The Times ‘I’m very interested in your book,’ said the writer suddenly.

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