By Larry Gotterer

Everyone needs space to think, and while space appears to be vast, inside of most people’s heads it is limited. When that air space is too thin, dense, or polluted the person will often appear to be from another planet, so what they think—whether positive or negative—matters much less.

Under optimal headspace conditions, pessimists tend to thrive when their essence is surrounded by negative space. Positive thinkers are less comfortable in this orbit, which gives new meaning to the term UFOs—Unfortunately For Optimists.

While optimists prefer to be surrounded by positive space, they can still learn a lot from pessimists about leveraging the advantages of negative space. Negative thinkers are experts at climbing out of black holes, avoiding being disappointed by making wishes upon stars that never had a chance of materializing, and not shooting for the moon, which is really only within reach for people like Elon Musk.

The good news is that if you make better use of the negative space in your brainatarium, you can Find Happiness through Negative Thinking.