3Optimism and Reality
Shackleton had a wonderful and rare understanding of the men’s attitudes towards one another and towards the expedition as a whole. He appreciated how deeply one man, or a small group of men, could affect the psychology of the others. Therefore he almost insisted upon cheeriness and optimism; in fact his attitude was, “You’ve damn well got to be optimistic.”1
—Frank A. Worsley
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