Optimism

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"Futurism tells us more about the present than the future" --@mattwridley nails it

Ben Reinhardt twitter.com

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Optimism

Packy McCormick notboring.co

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Hans Rosling • 6 highlights

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Cover of Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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Edge.org

Brian Knutson edge.org

Jay Matthews

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Awash in a bleak mediascape, I had simply assumed that optimism had been long exiled to the realm of corny naivete, gone the way of “Live, Laugh, Loving” and #Girlbossing. So it came as a shock when my TikTok feed started filling up with posts about the “Indomitable Human Spirit.”

Dirt • Dirt: The indomitable human spirit

Keely Adler

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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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

Mary Martin

Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.

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