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Reader question: “With us the glass is half full rather than half empty.” What does that mean? My comments: They are optimistic. Those of “us” are able to look at the brighter side. That’s what it means. In other words, they’re just not going to be disappointed when they see a glass that is filled to the halfway line. My baby niece, when she was two or three that is, was not one of these people. I observed that whenever she asked for a glass of water and you poured her half a glass she refused to take it every single time. “More,” she would demand. You filled the cup to two thirds. “Still more,” she demanded. You had to fill the glass to the brim. That’s when she was satisfied – She would take two gulps and leave the rest of the glass alone, and never touch it again. After observing this, and similar scenes, a few times, I decided that my cute little niece had, among other things, formulated the idea of “more is better”. The more the merrier it is, in fact, for her. She had not formulated the concept of “enough is enough”, but that is for another day, I thought. Or another year, for that matter. Or another decade or even lifetime. You see, for example, it took Bill Gates and Warren Buffet half a life to understand this. With them (and some other extremely rich fellas), half is more than enough. | 
