The optimism all saw in each time the danger to the opportunity, but the pessimistic person all saw in each opportunity to the danger.

For example, some people justify their thoughts and negative attitudes by saying they are pessimistic. 'It is the tree that hides the forest' .

Not everyone, however, is so pessimistic.

My attitude attracted similar negative-minded people. We were wild and free.

For China' s government, that may be more ominous than a shelf of gloomy brokers' reports - and another reminder that politics, not the economy, remains China' s biggest problem.