The Optimist View
Our weekend edition long form journalism explores in-depth solutions to global issues.
The Optimist View: Cultivating a Circular Economy
“There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.” – Gaylord Nelson On one of our regular family Zoom calls, my aunt asked me “what habits have you adopted during Read More...
OPTIMIST VIEW: It's OK to Celebrate
Today’s Optimist View is a reprint from an essay by industry thought leader, Gary Burnison that inspired our team. Burnison, CEO of global organization and consulting firm, Korn Ferry, reminds us that it is imperative that we do not cancel celebrating although we have been forced to cancel Read More...
OPTIMIST VIEW: Managing self-care when things fall apart
The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy. - Pema Chödrön By Kristy Jansen Back in 2006 when I was about 6 months pregnant, I went in for my semi-annual teeth cleaning and dental check-up. Shirley, my dental Read More...
Optimist View: A Summer of Inspiration
The Optimist Daily has experienced record growth this summer and we are incredibly grateful for everyone who has read, shared, and been inspired by our solution-based, reader-funded journalism. We wanted to take a moment to celebrate and re-share some of our most powerful stories from the summer so Read More...
Stop and Smell the Roses! An Ode to the Most Beguiling Sense
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. – Oliver Wendell Holmes By Amelia Buckley It’s a real estate cliché to bake cookies in a home before an open house. It’s not that we can’t resist Read More...
OPTIMIST VIEW: Snapshots of Life in a Time of Coronavirus
BY KRISTY JANSEN AND AMELIA BUCKLEY KRISTY: Last Saturday I ventured out to the local Costco. My household was down to our last few rolls of toilet paper, and my 75 year old mother’s household - where she’s been in self-protective isolation with her two 70+ housemates for the past month - Read More...
OPTIMIST VIEW: How an Optimist and a Prepper Found Common Ground
Our instincts to come together are stronger than our differences "Like well-worn grooves in a record, neural-pathways become deeply etched from the repetitive and familiar bio-chemical responses we have to situations." BY SUSANNE SIMS Two weeks ago I ran into my neighbor Bill, someone with whom Read More...
OPTIMIST VIEW: Quarantined in Costa Rica
"The absurdity (and the beauty) of this moment, is palpable" The newspapers today read like a Gabriel García Márquez novel: the stories seem completely unreal, and yet, we are obliged to believe them. The question on every mind, “Is this really happening, or am I going crazy?” The Read More...
OPTIMIST VIEW - An Inspired Global Reaction to Change
By Summers McKay and Kaley Craft SUMMERS: To say the last few months have been an extraordinary change would be an understatement for much of the world. For some of us, everything is different, and for others - far less - but we still know things will never be as they were before. For those of Read More...
OPTIMIST VIEW: Emissaries - We love you!
The world is now too small for anything but fellowship The entire team at The Optimist Daily has been working overtime to ensure that we continue to deliver high quality, solution-based journalism in this challenging time. We are seeking not only solutions but also tools that can be of value to Read More...