New Mindset, Who Dis? 734 - Infinite optimism
Sep 11, 2025
Explore the concept of infinite optimism and how it can transform your perspective on life. Delve into the four core tenets: embracing abundance, recognizing your significance without being self-centered, fostering wonder, and believing in endless possibilities. Learn practical ways to reframe challenges like job loss and breakups, shifting from a mindset of scarcity to one of abundance. Discover how to make decisions that open up new opportunities and enhance your overall well-being.
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Life As Infinite Unfolding
- Case Kenny frames life as an infinite unfolding where setbacks do not close off future possibility.
- This view rejects finality and treats abundance as the baseline condition of existence.
Giordano Bruno's Radical Cosmos
- Case Kenny recounts Giordano Bruno's belief that the cosmos is infinite and filled with many suns, planets, and life.
- Bruno faced lethal punishment for challenging the dominant, Earth-centered religious worldview.
Abundance Undermines Fatalism
- Case Kenny connects Bruno's cosmology to a moral of optimism: abundance undermines fatalism and scarcity thinking.
- If existence is infinite, then believing you missed your one shot is an illusion.
