Why Optimism Is a Better Match for Reality
Jan 17, 2019•43 min
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Episode description
Steven Pinker, the experimental psychologist, Harvard psychology professor, and bestselling author of Enlightenment Now explains our tendency to look at the past through rose-colored glasses and view the present world much more pessimistically and why that thinking doesn't reflect reality.
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