Why Optimism Is a Better Match for Reality

Why Optimism Is a Better Match for Reality

Why Optimism Is a Better Match for Reality

The goop Podcast - January 17, 2019 - 42:11

Steven Pinker, the experimental psychologist, Harvard psychology professor, and bestselling author of Enlightenment Now explains our tendency to look at the past through rose-colored glasses and view the present world much more pessimistically and why that thinking doesn't reflect reality.

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