“True optimists don’t believe that everything will be great. That is complacency. Optimism is the belief that the odds of good outcomes are in your favor in the long run, even if you face setbacks in the meantime.”
i always remind myself of this quote from Csikszentmihalyi before i let myself get pulled into a negative thought loop.
it’s wild what social media algorithms have become. complete isolation. pure echo chambers.
our feeds are so curated that you almost never encounter a radically different viewpoint.
and if you do, it’s probably just someone in your bubble reposting it to mock it. terrifying.