Dave Cornthwaite 16 June 2017 Media Coverage, Adventure Psychology, Optimism A Guide to Delusional Optimism Dave Cornthwaite 16 June 2017 Media Coverage, Adventure Psychology, Optimism At some obscure point in my mid-twenties, between wishing the hours away until home time and wishing the clock would stop so I would never have to go to work again, I contracted a disease.