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LinkedIn News. Hey it's Jesse, happy holidays everyone. My family celebrates Christmas. You know, this morning morning over breakfast.

I was trying to motivate the kids to eat their breakfast and I pulled up the 1964 holiday special

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer and I am here to tell you it holds up the music is great the story is great if you haven't seen it in a while

regardless of whether you have kids you You should check it out. At any rate, the entire Hello Monday team is off this week, and so we are bringing you one of our very best episodes from 2023.

Reaching into the archives here for our conversation about optimism

with the Stanford researcher Jamil Zaki.

He has a pretty powerful message for us, a message that feels necessary as we close out the

year, and that is that we humans are optimistic by nature.

We are, and he will help us to think about how we can all tap into that.

Now, however you are spending this week, I hope that it brings you some down time,

some quiet reflection time, and some good time in the company of people you love and people who love you

and we here is Hello Monday.

It's our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us.

This year we set out to infuse optimism into our show.

I'm talking to you now as I scroll through the New York Times app on my phone and see news of yet another mass shooting.

It's followed here by a story about a corruption scandal in Ukraine.

Now I look up and I'm out the window and I'm wondering why hasn't it snowed yet in New York City

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