![]() ![]() This post was published on the now-closed HuffPost. #BOOKS ON OPTIMISM HOW TO#Centuries of literature have taught us this lesson over and over. Learned Optimism shows us how to stop automatically assuming guilt, how to get out of the habit of seeing the direst possible implications in every setback, and. ![]() However sad or challenging an experience might feel in the moment, there is a benefit to be gained. ![]() In this original, optimistic book, Matt Ridley puts forward his surprisingly simple answer to how humans progress, arguing that we progress when we trade and we only really trade productively when we trust each other. That's what optimism is, after all: a belief that your life is going to work out for the best. Yet, bizarrely, however much things improve from the way they were before, people still cling to the belief that the future will be nothing but disastrous. The Success Journey by John Maxwell is a book I enjoyed which talks about the steps needed to grow. Learn more about Great on Kindle, available in. The availability of almost everything a person could want or need has been going erratically upwards for 10,000 years and has rapidly accelerated over the last 200 years: calories vitamins clean water machines privacy the means to travel faster than we can run, and the ability to communicate over longer distances than we can shout. Enjoy a great reading experience when you buy the Kindle edition of this book. With eclectic illustrations by Australian artist, Cate Edwards, and specially chosen affirmations. Today there are more than 6 billion, 99 per cent of whom are better fed, better sheltered, better entertained and better protected against disease than their Stone Age ancestors. Each book is a pocket-sized collection of wisdom. Over 10,000 years ago there were fewer than 10 million people on the planet. The one thing they all have in common is that their ideas can help us advance the greater good to build a world in which people feel inspired, safe and fulfilled. The optimists and authors come from all walks of life with all kinds of ideas. A counterblast to the prevailing pessimism of our age, and proves, however much we like to think to the contrary, that things are getting better. Simon created the Optimism Press with his longtime publisher, Penguin Random House. ![]()
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