I hear that corporate psychologists are fashionably outlawing the use of the word “but” preferring “and” as it’s more positive. I disagree with this fundamentally, for the same reasons as I disagree with Instaquotes about always being positive. I live as a defensive pessimist – What is the worst that can happen and how will I deal with it? As a result, people are often surprised to hear that I live in a state of happy wonder when my premonitions go unfulfilled. The reason tha