# The key to informed optimism

Source: https://www.cochinescu.com/p/the-key-to-informed-optimism/

Don Kelley and Daryl Conner in the 70s coined the Emotional Cycle of Change framework and the five stages of personal development:

- the uninformed optimist

- the informed pessimist

- the valley of despair

- the informed optimist

- the completion

Now this may apply not only to personal growth, but to startups too.

And I think the key factor that enables moving from the valley of despair to the informed optimist stage instead of cycling back to the uninformed optimist is grit.