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Can Optimism Survive Bad News? Michelle Gielan on Resilient Optimism, Burnout and Becoming a Positive Deviant

In this interview, I spoke to Michelle Gielan, positive psychology researcher, former CBS Morning News anchor and author of Resilient Optimism, about why optimism is a set of behaviours rather than a…

Michelle Gielan 2 Sep 2026 27 min read

Politics & Policy

Christiana Figueres on Climate Action & Global Optimism

Christiana Figueres is a Costa Rican citizen and an internationally recognized leader on climate change. She was Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from 2010 to…

Christiana Figueres 18 Nov 2020 7 min read

Business & Economics

Melinda Gates on Global Health & Philanthropy

By deploying capital and talent, guided by the vision that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has achieved some incredible successes. Over 500 million children have been…

Melinda Gates 2 May 2019 10 min read