In this episode, I sit down with J. V. Baratan to talk about his book on dying optimism.

Get excited because this is tiny leaps.

Big Jeech. Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaves, big changes where I share simple strategies

you can use to get more out of your life. My name is Greg Klunis and in this

episode we are talking about optimism. Now it's

no secret that being optimistic having a positive point of you on the world around

you and on your life is quite frankly the secret to

happiness they've actually done research on the fact that optimism for your future

is what allows you to feel happy and content today. And so I'm really

excited to be speaking with my next guest because he wrote a book on the topic of optimism.

And so you really can't get much more perfect

than that if you're trying to explore,

well, what are the factors that lead to happiness?

How do you create that in your own life? So without further ado, J. V. How you doing?

Good, how you doing?

Doing pretty good. I appreciate you taking some time to be here today.

So let's start here. You call yourself an accidental author. Tell me a little about that. Yes, so I grew up in southern India.

I came here 21 years ago to study and pursue a corporate career

and I come from engineering background and I never thought of myself a writer.

But things happen in my life and I fell into darkness almost hit a rock bottom and I basically got out of that situation.

So that experience brought that writer author in me.

I started writing a journal and then my journal, well I was going through

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