Tips and strategies to stay Optimistic. Victor Perton, Centre for Optimism Victor Perton from the Centre for Optimism, outlines 5 things you can do to keep optimistic and challenges us all to ask people to replace ‘how are you?’ with What makes you optimistic? Or what is the best thing that has happened to you today? Victor is the Author of “Optimism: The How and Why” and “The Case for Optimism: The Optimists’ Voices”.