Deepika Chopra

is really important and something we don't necessarily teach.

And it is important to learn these tools.

We have it within us.

They are again, they are trainable and it is like a muscle.

And if there's one thing I think we need, it is to learn these tools so that we can keep showing up and staying engaged because that's important.

We need to still be engaged with our community.

We are social creatures and that's a part we need to feel like we matter.

No.

We are being stretched past not even what our capabilities are.

We are stretched past what we were made for, built to do.

And so I think that's so right.

And that's true for so many different, it's true in the attention space.

It's,

true in the emotional space.

It's a really tough time.

And that's why I think we need more tools that are based on reality.

And so for me, it was really important to write down a collection of real optimism tools for real humans living real lives in 2026.

It is important to meet people where they're actually at and what we are collectively going through.

Like the most important thing.

And I think many of us think we have to have the perfectly curated sort of response and teaching moment when our kids are going through a struggle.