HOPE FOR CYNICS: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness
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LinkedIn presents. I'm Rufus Griscomb. And I'm Panio Gianopoulos. And this is the next big idea. Today, the surprising science of human goodness.
So, Panio, you and I have known each other for at least a decade now. A question I've been interested to ask, do you think of yourself as a cynic? I would consider myself a lapsed cynic. I used to be cynical and then I've been working on it trying to become more optimistic. And I would ask you the same question, but I know all too well from experience, you are by far the most optimistic person I have ever met.
And that includes when my son was four years old and thought the world was, you know, rainbows and puppies. Oh my gosh. I've only recently graduated from just putting everything that that I see in my mouth. I definitely consider myself an optimist, but specifically when it comes to other people, interpersonal dynamics, I think of myself as being somewhat more skeptical when I think about sort of how the world works, the systems through which the world operates.
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