A cynical attitude towards life can have seriously negative effects on your mental health. Here are 9 practical ways you can be more optimistic in day to day life.

Rutger Bregman on how to be a more optimistic person

We are the only species in the whole animal kingdom with the ability to blush

Understand that optimism doesn’t mean naïvety

Consume the narratives you want to embody

It all starts with your view of human nature

Treat people how you’d like them to act

Consider the ways in which the world is improving

Rutger Bregman, author and historian

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9 practical ways to be more optimistic in day-to-day life