How To Be An Optimist with Pat Berges

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Management, Education

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Don’t you hate it when you’re coasting along -- not a care in the world -- and then it feels like life comes out of nowhere and hits you like a car, almost paralyzing you? Well, for Pat Berges, that wasn’t just a feeling…that actually happened. Like many of us, Pat is not a natural optimist. He had to learn how to find optimism during this dark period. Not only did it help him recover, but what he learned continues to help him be, well, optimistic. This is… A Bit of Optimism.

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0:00.0	I started this podcast with the hope of spreading a little optimism.
0:10.9	And then I met Pat Burgess, who admitted to me that he is actually not a natural optimist,
0:17.6	that he actually has to do work to be optimistic.
0:22.0	And I kind of love that.
0:23.6	He had a really bad bicycle accident a few months ago that left him with a broken spine
0:28.6	in the hospital.
0:29.6	It's very easy to be depressed and down in himself and he had to really learn how to
0:36.1	be an optimist.
0:37.4	He figured out ways to lift his spirits and it worked.
0:42.0	And it turns out the things he learned can be used by any of us every day.
0:48.2	This is a bit of optimism.
0:52.6	Pat how are you?
0:53.6	Nice to see you Simon.
0:55.0	We met because in the middle of the pandemic, you reached out to me.
0:59.5	Your company was making ventilators because people were in hospital and dying of COVID.
1:04.6	And the problem was these ventilators are being churned out so quickly that people didn't
1:08.1	know how to use them.
1:09.1	The nurses didn't know how to properly use them.
1:10.5	And so you produced an app that basically gave step-by-step instructions how to use
1:16.2	not just your company's ventilators, but all the company's ventilators.
1:20.9	It was like a one-stop shop simplified instruction manual.
1:24.6	This was a problem that was bigger than just my company.
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