I am interrupting my regularly scheduled programming (on my year-long theme of resilience and my monthly theme on optimism) to share some exciting news. I was invited to speak on an international … [Read more...] about A Message to the Suffering World
Archives for March 2019
How We Explain Stuff to Ourselves
We’ve all been exposed to enough pop psychology that we know optimism when we see it. Optimism makes us feel warm and happy inside, whereas its nemesis – pessimism – can feel a real drag. Last … [Read more...] about How We Explain Stuff to Ourselves
Ridiculous Optimism
“Light existed all along. Of course it did. Who says it didn't because I couldn't see it?” Gillian Marchenko 1 Let’s do a thought experiment. Imagine you are the photojournalist that … [Read more...] about Ridiculous Optimism