“Thing could always be worse,” Robert Provine, professor of psychology, reminds us in an essay published by Business Day.
“We have all heard of the ‘grass is greener’ syndrome. This is its ‘grass is browner’ counterpart, the achievable antidote for broken dreams and bolsterer of the status quo,” he writes.
The essay, “Thing Could Always be Worse,” appeared in Business Day on March 16, and was excerpted from Provine’s answer to the Edge question “What Are You Optimistic About?”
