You can be an optimist, you can be a pessimist if you're rational.
Both of them see reality for what it is, right?
They see the markets, they see the problems, they see the challenges.
The optimist, though, believes that their behavior matters to make a difference.
The pessimist won't attempt to do anything about it because whether consciously or unconsciously, they just don't believe that they can affect change.
Today's guest, Michelle Gielan, was a CB's news anchor, and she made a pretty major change in her career, went back and pursued her master in applied positive psychology from the University of Penn, and then became a researcher, wrote a book called Broadcasting Happiness, and founded the Institute for Applied Positive Research.
She has partnered with many different people and is doing some fascinating work and revealing some things about the human condition, how we relate to the world, to each other, how we relate to the work that we do in the world.
That's really eye opening.
We dive into a lot of her work and her discoveries and also her personal story in today's episode.
I'm Jonathan Fields.
This is good life project.
I ran into an elementary school teacher recently and she said, oh, you were lovely.
You were so quiet in class.
I didn't think I was quiet, but apparently I was.
Oh, that's funny.
I know, but, yeah, I was a rule follower.
And creative.
I loved art.
I loved shop class.
Anything tech related, I was into it.