Choosing optimism with Jamil Zaki

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The news is often bleak, especially recently, and that could complicate our plans for a pragmatically optimistic year. Thankfully, we have psychology professor and researcher Jamil Zaki in the virtual studio this week to share some invigorating findings from his work running Stanford’s Social Neuroscience Lab. In this episode, he and Jessi talk about trust and how it’s changing. We learn more about the nature of the stories we tell ourselves. And Jamil will push us to embrace curiosity as we consider adjusting those stories. Follow Jamil Zaki on LinkedIn and explore his work here. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir. 🖥 Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET. 💬 Join our new LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners and continue this week’s conversation here: https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

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0:00.0	LinkedIn's Talent Connect Show is the event for talent teams to dive into the most pressing
0:05.5	challenges facing the industry. Join this global broadcast event on October 3rd and 4th.
0:10.9	Register today at LinkedIn TalentConnect.com slash podcast.
0:17.1	LinkedIn News
0:22.3	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel and this is Hello Monday.
0:26.0	It's our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us.
0:33.0	This year we set out to infuse optimism into our show.
0:36.8	I'm talking to you now as I scroll through the New York Times app on my phone and see news
0:41.2	of yet another mass shooting. It's followed here by a story about a corruption scandal in Ukraine.
0:47.5	Now I look up and out the window and I'm wondering why hasn't it snowed yet in New York City?
0:52.4	It's the end of January. Is this global warming?
0:56.2	The evidence to support pessimism all around me can be overwhelming even to our guest this week.
1:03.5	I have moments just like anybody where I feel hopeless. I mean there's so much bad news.
1:09.2	There's so much suffering in the world and so much of that is caused by us and it feels unforgivable.
1:15.7	It feels like we can never emerge from the pain that we're causing one another.
1:21.2	And yet again I look when I can at what we can count at what the data show.
1:28.6	That's Jamil Zaki. Jamil is a psychology professor and researcher at Stanford.
1:34.4	He runs the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab. Jamil's research focuses on how people respond to
1:40.1	each other, how we influence each other, and when and why we choose to help each other.
1:45.7	His most recent focus called the War for Kindness, Building Empathy in a Fracture World.
1:51.6	The research Jamil's conducted for more than 15 years reveals surprises.
1:56.7	It suggests we have reason to be much more optimistic about our future than the headlines might
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