Optimism
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Optimism
No proven resources or technologies can sustain economic growth. The status quo will plateau. To expect growth is to believe in future technologies. To expect very long-term growth is to believe in science fiction.
Jason Crawford • Why Pessimism Sounds Smart
Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.
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 th... See more
100 Positive News from 2023 | Gapminder
Optimistic really ought to be a verb
It's something you *do*, not some property you happen to possess. Sometimes it's easy to do, and sometimes it's darned hard, requiring imagination & determination
Research has shown a staggering number of health benefits associated with dispositional optimism, from improvements in cardiovascular health, to how quickly wounds heal, to slower disease progression.
What We Get Wrong About Manifesting
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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
The most important technologies that no one is working on are optimism and beautiful visions of the future. A belief in technological progress must include giving people places and futures worth believing in. It doesn't come for free.
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