Jason Silva: Optimism is a Self-Amplifying Feedback Loop

Filmmaker and futurist Jason Silva explains his belief in the self-reinforcing power of optimism.

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Directed / Produced by
Elizabeth Rodd and Jonathan Fowler

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  Education

[Joe Indvik]

I don't think he's arguing that you should ignore the things that make you sad. He is saying you should be strategic about creating experiences that DON'T make you sad by understanding yourself, your world, and how they interact. I don't think he would advocate for sweeping everything under the rug, but rather for collecting less dust in the first place. He is arguing that we can think our way out of many forms of unhappiness through our own agency, rather than resigning ourselves to them.

[nistyboy32]

It's funny how in today's era many philosophers tend to not be classified as philosophers because they don't have long bushy beards...

[ryman2350]

I love how every human being has their own unique perception of this universe, and we all express it infinitely different.  Why would we ever want anything different?

[BarrioAztrologist89]

Oh Jason Silva, you f*cking love science?

We f*cking do science.

Sincerely, the Scientists.

[mojojojo61279]

if science is the new religion does that make you a priest?? lay of the pseudo efedrine you name drop bebot. you are ingesting your own feedback loop you sound bite loop academia's new quire boy. up there in your ivory towers spouting your financial latin for relligeon! the haves pissing on the have nots keeping your "knowledge"segregated and sold of to the highest bidders pretending you have "jobs" and you"work"hard, mental master bating all over each other with your copy paste cathartic puke

[Dylan Grant]

Optimism and positive thinking really do work!

[666or999]

I'm not sure how this is supposed to be philosophy.

[redmatchbox]

I googled this dude and wikipedia told me: "Jason Silva is a Venezuelan-American television personality, filmmaker, and performance philosopher."

So I guess you don't need the beard to be classified as a philosopher :)