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(Friday Filosophy 5/12/23)

Happy Freakin’ Friday!

Welcome to another issue of Friday Filosophy, my weekly postcard to you, where I suggest a question, topic, or challenge to consider.  This w...

Last post we were discussing optimism versus pessimism.  Did you know there are some genetic factors that influence your optimism?  About 50% of your personality traits are determined by your genes ...

More than ten years ago I read a book titled, Hard Optimism.  It offers some interesting insights into the topic.   And provides some scientific evidence to support many things about optimism that ...

Did you know there are some genetic factors that influence your optimism?  Most personality traits are determined about 50 percent by your genes and family origin.   So you may have been born optim...

After the last post, I heard from my good friend Steve Siebold.  He wrote me, “The first-world is Disneyland, where we live in a bubble and have discussions like these.  The vast majority of the w...

It was a beautiful South Florida Saturday morning.  I’m on my way to the car wash, and Van Morrison is belting out “Domino” on my stereo.  There’s a black pickup truck driving alongside me w...

Last post I told you that while your optimistic or pessimistic mindset is partially inherited, you can change it.  So let’s look at that. (more…)...

Did you know there are some genetic factors that influence your optimism? (more…)...