Optimism
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Optimism
We should be optimistic not because our problems are smaller than we thought, but because our capacity to solve them is larger than we thought.
Kevin Kelly • 💡 Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling • 6 highlights
amazon.com
We need the right kind of climate optimism
Hannah Ritchie • We Need the Right Kind of Climate Optimism
We know, as well as we know anything, that human beings can grow and change for the better. And it’s no longer optional. In fact it’s the new categorical imperative. We simply have to understand what it means for human beings to grow and develop and think about what follows for political and civic institutions and social and economic policy. It’s... See more
Substack • Imagining a World Beyond Consumerism
in times of intense stress or adversity, future-oriented thinking such as hope may be more effective than mindfulness in sustaining positive mindsets and action-oriented outcomes such as engagement.
Work‐related resilience, engagement and wellbeing among music ...
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Many bad things happened in 2023. You already know them. Many tragic events were so terrible we will never forget them and we shouldn’t. You can easily find them all over the news. But the good things that happened are much harder to encounter, and it is easy to get the impression nothing good happened at all. In order to keep struggling to make... See more
100 Positive News from 2023 | Gapminder
"Futurism tells us more about the present than the future"
--@mattwridley nails it
Ben Reinhardttwitter.com