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#638 - Kevin Kelly - 22 Habits To Follow For A Happy Life
Modern Wisdom
The Power of Compounding Interests
I'm optimistic, not because the problems I think are smaller than we're aware of, but because our capacity to solve the problems is increasing even faster. That's an amazing case for it. We're not being Pollyanna and dismissing the problems when you're optimistic. You're just saying, no, we're trusting the future or the future generations as their skill for solving problems continues to increase. It has to do with supreme power of compounding interests, compounding things. Even if you are only increasing or improving or creating a few percent more than you destroy, if you compound that over time, it becomes a very, very large, consistent force. Yeah, radical optimism is my term
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