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Optimism isn't just a private belief. It is information that we are sharing with other people that becomes evidence of progress and possibility.

If you do not speak up, your optimism has no effect on the room.

Sometimes we fight so hard against the negative. But if we can bolster the positive, we can sometimes get to the same place.

Resilience is not how you endure, it's how you recharge.

It doesn't ask, was today good? It asks, what was good in today?

Optimism is the expectation of good things to happen. Resilient optimism is optimism that is built on a set of behaviours and stays strong when it's tested.

You need to be able to hold two truths at the same time. Yes, this is difficult, and there's something we can do here. Yes, I don't know how the story ends, and I believe that my behaviour matters in this moment.

Toxic positivity aims to edit out the problem.

What I study in the research is rational optimism. It's how you take a realistic assessment of the present moment while maintaining a belief that your behaviour matters, especially in the face of challenges.

Optimism doesn't stop cars from hitting us. It doesn't stop reality from negatively affecting us.