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We Can Do Hard Things
Are You a Cynic, Optimist, or Skeptic? Dr. Jamil Zaki Shares Which Type is Happiest

Well, and we also have the information that we need to share with people, but we also have false information that we believe that is very much impacting us. So you talked about this study that 30% of people believed that quote unquote, most people can be trusted, only 30%. But then 65% of those same people said that their own community could be trusted.

We Can Do Hard Things
Are You a Cynic, Optimist, or Skeptic? Dr. Jamil Zaki Shares Which Type is Happiest

Well, and we also have the information that we need to share with people, but we also have false information that we believe that is very much impacting us. So you talked about this study that 30% of people believed that quote unquote, most people can be trusted, only 30%. But then 65% of those same people said that their own community could be trusted.

We Can Do Hard Things
Are You a Cynic, Optimist, or Skeptic? Dr. Jamil Zaki Shares Which Type is Happiest

Well, and we also have the information that we need to share with people, but we also have false information that we believe that is very much impacting us. So you talked about this study that 30% of people believed that quote unquote, most people can be trusted, only 30%. But then 65% of those same people said that their own community could be trusted.

We Can Do Hard Things
Are You a Cynic, Optimist, or Skeptic? Dr. Jamil Zaki Shares Which Type is Happiest

So it's like, we actually do trust our own people. It's this idea that the people that aren't our people are different than us. our people, right? So it's like what we can see, we trust, but we mistrust what we can't see.

We Can Do Hard Things
Are You a Cynic, Optimist, or Skeptic? Dr. Jamil Zaki Shares Which Type is Happiest

So it's like, we actually do trust our own people. It's this idea that the people that aren't our people are different than us. our people, right? So it's like what we can see, we trust, but we mistrust what we can't see.

We Can Do Hard Things
Are You a Cynic, Optimist, or Skeptic? Dr. Jamil Zaki Shares Which Type is Happiest

So it's like, we actually do trust our own people. It's this idea that the people that aren't our people are different than us. our people, right? So it's like what we can see, we trust, but we mistrust what we can't see.

We Can Do Hard Things
Are You a Cynic, Optimist, or Skeptic? Dr. Jamil Zaki Shares Which Type is Happiest

And I was wondering if you could, in this thinking of this globally, talk to us about what happened in Prague with Vaclav Havel and the whole idea that hopelessness results from most people believing incorrectly that most people don't care. So we think that most people don't care, which isn't true. But then that thinking leads to hopelessness, which leads most people not to care.

We Can Do Hard Things
Are You a Cynic, Optimist, or Skeptic? Dr. Jamil Zaki Shares Which Type is Happiest

And I was wondering if you could, in this thinking of this globally, talk to us about what happened in Prague with Vaclav Havel and the whole idea that hopelessness results from most people believing incorrectly that most people don't care. So we think that most people don't care, which isn't true. But then that thinking leads to hopelessness, which leads most people not to care.

We Can Do Hard Things
Are You a Cynic, Optimist, or Skeptic? Dr. Jamil Zaki Shares Which Type is Happiest

And I was wondering if you could, in this thinking of this globally, talk to us about what happened in Prague with Vaclav Havel and the whole idea that hopelessness results from most people believing incorrectly that most people don't care. So we think that most people don't care, which isn't true. But then that thinking leads to hopelessness, which leads most people not to care.

We Can Do Hard Things
Are You a Cynic, Optimist, or Skeptic? Dr. Jamil Zaki Shares Which Type is Happiest

So it's like this vicious cycle. Tell us what happened with him because that was with the butcher shop and all of that. It was so beautiful.

We Can Do Hard Things
Are You a Cynic, Optimist, or Skeptic? Dr. Jamil Zaki Shares Which Type is Happiest

So it's like this vicious cycle. Tell us what happened with him because that was with the butcher shop and all of that. It was so beautiful.

We Can Do Hard Things
Are You a Cynic, Optimist, or Skeptic? Dr. Jamil Zaki Shares Which Type is Happiest

So it's like this vicious cycle. Tell us what happened with him because that was with the butcher shop and all of that. It was so beautiful.

We Can Do Hard Things
Are You a Cynic, Optimist, or Skeptic? Dr. Jamil Zaki Shares Which Type is Happiest

Because then what happened was when a few of like the theaters came out and instead of like against all odds, they came out and spoke against the regime. Then other people started saying, oh my God, them too, them too, them too. Two weeks later, the regime is crushed, right? Because it's the domino effect that is the reverse domino effect of the sign going up.

We Can Do Hard Things
Are You a Cynic, Optimist, or Skeptic? Dr. Jamil Zaki Shares Which Type is Happiest

Because then what happened was when a few of like the theaters came out and instead of like against all odds, they came out and spoke against the regime. Then other people started saying, oh my God, them too, them too, them too. Two weeks later, the regime is crushed, right? Because it's the domino effect that is the reverse domino effect of the sign going up.

We Can Do Hard Things
Are You a Cynic, Optimist, or Skeptic? Dr. Jamil Zaki Shares Which Type is Happiest

Because then what happened was when a few of like the theaters came out and instead of like against all odds, they came out and spoke against the regime. Then other people started saying, oh my God, them too, them too, them too. Two weeks later, the regime is crushed, right? Because it's the domino effect that is the reverse domino effect of the sign going up.

We Can Do Hard Things
Are You a Cynic, Optimist, or Skeptic? Dr. Jamil Zaki Shares Which Type is Happiest

Is that they're with me, they're with me. Wait, we have more power. They're just trying to separate us from each other.

We Can Do Hard Things
Are You a Cynic, Optimist, or Skeptic? Dr. Jamil Zaki Shares Which Type is Happiest

Is that they're with me, they're with me. Wait, we have more power. They're just trying to separate us from each other.

We Can Do Hard Things
Are You a Cynic, Optimist, or Skeptic? Dr. Jamil Zaki Shares Which Type is Happiest

Is that they're with me, they're with me. Wait, we have more power. They're just trying to separate us from each other.

We Can Do Hard Things
Are You a Cynic, Optimist, or Skeptic? Dr. Jamil Zaki Shares Which Type is Happiest

I love that. Calling out moral beauty, you said. I love that. It's finding evidence of moral beauty all around you. It will be there if you're looking for it. I love it. Thank you so much for being here. Book is beautiful. It's a beautiful tribute and such important information. If we're going to get ourselves free, it's going to be in part through more accurate information.

We Can Do Hard Things
Are You a Cynic, Optimist, or Skeptic? Dr. Jamil Zaki Shares Which Type is Happiest

I love that. Calling out moral beauty, you said. I love that. It's finding evidence of moral beauty all around you. It will be there if you're looking for it. I love it. Thank you so much for being here. Book is beautiful. It's a beautiful tribute and such important information. If we're going to get ourselves free, it's going to be in part through more accurate information.