Optimism, with Bill Burke

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🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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What makes someone an optimist? How do you embody optimism? Who is on your Mount Rushmore of Optimists? And, should we “gather all the optimists and eat the pessimists”?! Cultivating optimism, with Bill Burke, founder of The Optimism Institute.

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0:00.0	I'm in love and I'm not gonna hide it. I'm in love and the object of my love is this next hour we're about to spend together.
0:10.0	I'm really going to love this hour and I hope you will to not just hope though I'm
0:17.4	optimistic that you will love this hour and probably if you're like me you'll go back and sometimes listen to
0:25.3	this one again from time to time. Hey I love my guest this week Bill Burke
0:30.2	fabulous human being and I'm really in love with our subject this week, he is too, optimism.
0:39.8	So buckle up for a joy ride through the blue sky boulevards of optimism only on this
0:46.7	week's rule breaker investing.
0:51.0	It's the rule breaker investing podcast with Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner.
0:57.0	Bill Burke founded the Optimism Institute in 2022 after an extensive media and sports career as an executive writer and producer.
1:06.5	Bill served as CEO of the Weather Channel companies after several years at Time Warner and
1:12.0	Turner Broadcasting System
1:13.7	where he was the founding general manager of Turner Classic Movies
1:17.2	before going on to become president of TBS Super Station.
1:21.6	Additionally, whenever I think of TBS Super Station, I think of the Atlanta Braves, but speaking of
1:26.5	Baseball, for 15 years, Bill was the co-owner and chairman of the Portland, Maine,
1:32.0	Portland, Sea Dogs.
1:34.0	That's the double A minor league baseball affiliate
1:36.7	of the Boston Red Sox.
1:38.1	Bill is a lifelong optimist.
1:39.9	In his bio on his website, which is largely what I'm cribbing from he says yeah I have to be a lifelong
1:45.0	optimist because I'm a Detroit Lions fan he launched as I mentioned the optimism
1:49.8	institute in 2022 with a mission to inspire people with an optimistic hopeful vision of the world and its future.
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