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#207 - The importance of flow states and how to reclaim focus | Johann Hari & Ben Grynol
LEVELS – A Whole New Level
The Dangers of Cruel Optimism
There's always a danger of what the sociologist Lauren Bellant called cruel optimism. Cruel optimism is where you take a big social problem, like obesity, depression or attention problems and say to people, hey, they've got a solution for you. And it sounds like optimism but very often the solution that is proposed is not commensurate to the size of the problem. So I am an optimistic person in my book, stolen focus. It's all about solutions. The alternative to cruel optimism is authentic optimism. For a lot of people listening, the scale of the solution will be individual changes in their life because they'll be privileged people. We need social change to free people up to make
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