Deepika Chopra

And so you want to slowly start softening and chipping away at the negative self-belief without doing a driving down the highway at 150 miles per hour and asking someone to make a turn in the other direction, you'll crash and burn.

Just last month, there was a survey done and a study done and we are living in terms of our future optimism in America.

It is the lowest it's been in 20 years.

And I think that stat or even just hearing it or some of the stuff that you're bringing up, which is so true, because now we're talking a lot about this idea of not feeling connected.

And we know that connection and again, mattering is a big part of that.

Connecting with others.

We are social creatures is the hallmark.

Of wellbeing and the Harvard longitudinal study that came out a few years back and

We know that the single most important factor to predict happiness and a sense of contentment is our level of connection with other people.

These numbers are staggering on people in this country, not feeling like they belong and that they have a space or place.

And I think that this pessimism that we are in the most pessimistic state we've been in, in over 20 years is not a surprise.

I think so many of us can be like, well,

Have you woken up?

Do you know what we're living through?

Every day feels like a struggle.

And that's why I think this work and the tools in The Power of Real Optimism are so timely and so important and really honestly urgent because I truly believe that the answer to this is not to look away.

And I think a lot of people think, well, we weren't meant to be exposed to this much all at once.

And that is true.

We were not.

Our brains were not built for that.