466 | Hope for Cynics

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

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4.7 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Minimalists speak with Dr. Jamil Zaki from Stanford University about understanding and overcoming hopelessness and cynicism.

Discussed in this episode:

In what ways does cynicism mimic false hope? (2:24)

How do you find hope when you’ve felt hopeless for a long time? (10:08)

What are the surprising downsides of hope? (22:00)

Listener tip: Overthinking makes people feel hopeless. (30:55)

Listen to the full Maximal episode on Patreon: patreon.com/theminimalists

Detailed show notes: minimalists.com/podcast

Recorded at Earthing Studios.

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0:00.0	The Every little thing you think that you need
0:24.8	Every little thing you think that you need
0:29.4	Every little thing you think that you need every little thing that's just feeding your greed oh I bet that you'll be fine without it.
0:37.0	You're listening to the minimalist podcast with Joshua Fields Milburn and T.K. Coleman recorded live at
0:44.8	Earthing studios in sunny California.
0:47.2	Yes, yes, yes, although it's a bit cloudy today, but
0:50.8	Malabama's voice is always so sunny.
0:54.5	Hello everybody.
0:56.5	Today we're going to talk about cynicism.
0:58.7	We're going to talk about hope.
1:00.3	We're going to talk about hopefulness.
1:02.3	We're going to talk about hopelessness as well.
1:04.4	Joining us in the studio to discuss this topic is Dr.
1:07.5	Jamil Zaki, in addition to being a professor of psychology at Stanford University and the director of the titled Hope for Sinics the Surprising Science of Human Goodness
1:24.7	coming up on this free public minimal episode a caller has a question about
1:28.7	finding hopefulness when she's felt hopeless for so long.
1:34.4	And we've got a lightning round question
1:35.8	about the surprising downsides of hope.
1:38.8	That's followed by our right here, right now segment
1:41.2	and a listener tip. You can check out the maximal edition of
1:44.5	episode 466 that's the full two-hour episode where we answer three times as
1:50.5	many questions and we dive deep into several simple living segments that private
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