Optimism
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Optimism
"Futurism tells us more about the present than the future"
--@mattwridley nails it
Ben Reinhardttwitter.comWe 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
Different as it sounds, this kind of triumphalism had something in common with paralysed heartbreak. One rested in arrogant assurance, while the other rested in despair. Both saw the future as something offstage, rather than as the thing we were always creating in every moment, whether we acknowledged it or not. And both forgot that essential truth
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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Optimism is the meta that defines the rate of progress, and progress translates into longer, healthier, wealthier, and happier lives for more people.