318 / Fighting cynicism, choosing joy
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318 / Fighting cynicism, choosing joy
Curiosity is a better compass than cynicism—it shifts from defending your territory to exploring what's possible.
Trust, the willingness to be vulnerable to others, is an expression of faith that they will do the right thing. It is how hope lives between people. By eroding trust, cynicism steals our present together and dampens the futures we can imagine.
Jamil Zaki • Hope for Cynics
But these activities are all separate from the feelings needed to fully and sustainably participate: the courage, optimism, trust, love, intimacy, curiosity. The resilience to push through the inevitable feelings of fear, overwhelm, frustration, and hurt. The stamina to go through cycles of all of these feelings and more, again and again, and conti... See more
Community is About What We Are Willing to Feel
Curiosity is a better compass than cynicism—it shifts from defending your territory to exploring what's possible
Sari Azout • What Matters in the Age of AI Is Taste
“maintain innocence amid betrayal,” “avoid cynicism but still be able to doubt,” “be compassionate,” “preserve the values and loyalties that are most precious to you,” “celebrate the fruits of your labor.”
Sharon Daloz Parks • Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World
The biggest challenge to creating your virtuous cycle and one of the most dangerous failure modes of the pathless path is cynicism. Many people who leave the default path do so because they’ve become cynical and are driven by a desire to escape. But escaping is only the first step of leaving a certain path behind. In order to create a sustainable j
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