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The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd cover image

#142 Goofing Off On Purpose - Kevin Kelly on why we should subsidize travel for young people, owning his time, a rest ethic, riding his bike across US, his love of YouTube, staying optimistic about the future, raising children and his new book

The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd

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How to Channel Optimism in Today's World

I'm working on a project called Protopia which was my term for this idea of a flawed but slightly better future. I think channeling optimism in today's world is such a huge challenge for people it's so easy to come up with a dystopia right that's and coming up with anti-story lines this thing is bad super easy Right how have you channeled optimism in your life and have you lost track of that at any points to well I think I am genetically predisposed I mean I'm a sunny person they've always been according to the author.

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