992: How to Break Free from Cynicism and Reclaim Hope with Jamil Zaki

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🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Jamil Zaki shows you that there’s much reason to hope–even for the most hardened cynics.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why hope equals success

2) Why to be skeptical of your own cynicism

3) How your gut instincts can lead you astray

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— ABOUT JAMIL —

Dr. Jamil Zaki is a professor of psychology at Stanford University and the Director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab. He trained at Columbia and Harvard, studying empathy and kindness in the human brain. He is interested in how we can learn to connect better.

• Book: Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness

• Lab Website: Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab

• Website: jamil-zaki.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit

• Book: Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber

• Cynicism Test: Cook-Medley Cynical Hostility Scale

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0:00.0	It's not that you have to choose between hope or success.
0:06.8	It's not that you have to choose between hope or success.
0:10.2	Actually, they go hand in hand. Being hopeful is not a matter of being naive.
0:15.0	It's a matter of taking off those mud-colored glasses and seeing the world more clearly.
0:19.0	When we put faith in other people,
0:22.0	they're more likely to step up and meet our expectations because they're honored that we believe in them.
0:27.4	If these same experimenters ask people to go ahead and try that conversation with the stranger.
0:32.8	It goes extremely well, far better than we think.
0:36.7	So our cynicism isn't just clouding our judgment
0:40.1	about what people are like,
0:41.5	it's directly standing in the way of opportunities to build new
0:45.2	connections and deep in old ones. That's Jamil Zaki.
0:55.0	He's a professor of psychology at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford
1:00.3	Social Neuroscience Lab.
1:02.4	His field of expertise is how empathy and kindness
1:04.4	work in the human brain and how to better foster human connection. His new book
1:09.3	Hope for Synics, The Surprising Science of Human Good goodness, critique cynicism and advocates for hopeful
1:15.2	skepticism in order to create a better society.
1:18.4	So you'll learn one, why hope equals success, two, why to be skeptical of your own cynicism? And three, how your gut instincts
1:26.6	can lead you astray. I'm Pete McKitis. This is how to be awesome at your job. And now,
1:30.7	here's Jamil. Jamil, welcome!
1:37.0	Thanks so much for having me.
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