Hello and welcome to the new mindset hootis podcast. My name is Case Kenney at case.kens.k on

Instagram and this is my weekly podcast where I create short no BS episodes dedicated to helping

you become the person you're meant to be, leave your comfort zone and live a purposeful and

fulfilling life. Let's go.

Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling me. And thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me. And today, I want to talk about how to actually be optimistic in life. If you know me, if you listen to the pod, if you've written writing, if you've attended any of my live in-person events, this really is like my passion, helping us all through mindfulness to become optimistic, to believe in hope, to get back up, to not become like the people

who hurt us, to not define our futures by our past, to genuinely not butterflies and

rainbows become more optimistic. And so today I want to talk about a mindset to be more optimistic, but it's one that I don't

think many of us consider because most people think that optimism is like seeing the

positive side.

Optimism is positive thinking, right?

And in a sense, sure it is, but like this is something you cannot force. You cannot force

yourself to believe everything will just work out. We're just not wired for that. That collapses

on itself so easily. So what I've learned is optimism is less about positive thinking and it's more

about shifting your perspective. And in in light of that I think one of

the most, call it underrated ways to be more optimistic. It's by building a broader identity for

yourself. And what I mean by that is when you define yourself by just one thing in life or like one

role, one identity identity your job title your

relationship status your latest achievement how your body looks the amount of money in your bank

account when it's just one thing setbacks in that area of life they feel catastrophic but if you

have a multi-dimensional identity if you focus on being a multifaceted

human, well then failure in one area doesn't feel like failure in life. And isn't that what gets

in a way of optimism? Like we let one tree falling become the entire forest falling. there's actually some research around this idea of like possible selves or

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