How to Overcome Cynicism and Embrace Hope with Jamil Zaki
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Jamil Zaki discusses his new book on how to overcome cynicism and embrace hope. With a focus on trust, cynicism, and the dynamics of influence, Jamil’s research provides profound insights into fostering positive connections and combating societal divisions. With his expertise and dedication to understanding human nature, he offers a compassionate and thoughtful perspective on fostering hope in a world often marred by cynicism.
In this episode, you will be able to:
- Understand how personal perceptions shape behavior and decision-making
- Embrace hopeful skepticism to navigate cynicism and find a positive outlook
- Explore the profound impact of trust on building resilient communities
- Discover the power of solutions journalism in driving positive change
- Recognize the role of cynicism in shaping societal dynamics and control
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| 0:00.0 | I was talking with the columnist David Brooks recently and he said that he asks his students each year, |
| 0:05.3 | do you think people are generally good or bad? And he said that over the last 10 to 15 years, |
| 0:09.8 | the proportion of students who say, yeah, I think people are generally bad has skyrocketed. Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time great thinkers have |
| 0:26.9 | recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. Quotes like |
| 0:30.3 | garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. And yet for many of us |
| 0:36.8 | our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, |
| 0:42.1 | jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:47.0 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:50.0 | But it's not just about thinking, actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent and |
| 0:56.0 | creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people |
| 1:01.0 | keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:05.0 | They feed their good wolf. For decades the mafia had New York City in a stranglehold, with law enforcement seemingly powerless to intervene. |
| 1:27.0 | It uses terror to extort people. |
| 1:31.0 | But the murder of Carmie Galante marked the beginning of the end. It sent the message |
| 1:35.8 | that we can prosecute these people. Listen to law and order criminal justice |
| 1:41.5 | system on the I-Heart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:47.0 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:52.0 | Our guest on this episode is Dr. Jamil Zaki, a professor of psychology at |
| 1:56.4 | Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab. Jamil trained at Columbia and Harvard studying empathy and kindness in the human brain. |
| 2:06.9 | He's interested in how we can learn to connect better. |
| 2:10.0 | Today Jameel and Eric discuss book, Hope for Synix. |
| 2:13.4 | Hi Jamil, welcome to the show. |
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