Choose Optimism
Morgan Housel on finding the sensible balance between optimism and pessimism:
“Optimism is usually defined as a belief that things will go well. But that's incomplete. Sensible optimism is a belief that the odds are in your favor, and over time things will balance out to a good outcome even if what happens in between is filled with misery. And in fa... See more
“Optimism is usually defined as a belief that things will go well. But that's incomplete. Sensible optimism is a belief that the odds are in your favor, and over time things will balance out to a good outcome even if what happens in between is filled with misery. And in fa... See more
James Clear • Highlights From jamesclear.com
The absolute precondition for the Citizen Story is belief in ourselves and in human nature as creative, capable, and caring, rather than lazy, self-interested, and competitive within a zero-sum framework. Any attempt to redesign our institutions will fail if we haven’t embraced this fundamental belief.
Brian Eno • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
‘It is a peculiarity of man,’ he wrote, ‘that he can only live by looking to the future.’29 Historian Fred Polak was much influenced by this work and studied how images of the future had changed over the last few thousand years. His conclusion echoed Frankl’s, but at a larger scale: ‘As long as a society’s image of the future is positive and flouri
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
