 The news media is a drug pusher. And negative news is their drug. We learn to pay attention to bad news for a very important reason. As we humans were evolving on the plains of Africa, if you missed a piece of bad news like a rustle in the leaves was a tiger, you would be dead and your gene to be out of the gene pool. For that reason, we evolved a very important part of our ancient brain. A sliver of the temporal lobe called the amygdala, in which everything you see and everything you hear goes to the amygdala first. And if you see or hear a piece of bad news, you pay immediate attention. And the news media knows this. The old saying, if it bleeds, it leads is so true. Every device that you have, your smartphone, your laptop, your tablet, you're getting fed negative news over and over and over again. In high definition, in your living room. The world is getting better at an extraordinary rate. But as humans, we are not able to see the good news. Look at the last hundred years. The human lifespan has more than doubled. The cost of food has come down 13-fold, the cost of energy 20-fold, the cost of transportation 100-fold, and the cost of communications over a thousand-fold. Your chances of dying a violent death are 1,500th of what they used to be. The poorest people in the United States still have running water, flushing toilet, the vast majority have a car, a cell phone and air conditioning. These are things that 150 years ago, kings and queens did not have. Internationally, the impact is even larger. China, over the last 50 years, has gotten 10 times wealthier, and the average citizen is living 28 years longer. In Nigeria, the average citizen is getting twice as rich and is living 9 years longer. And it's estimated that we will hit zero people in absolute poverty by the year 2035. Within our lifetimes, we have the ability to create a world which is peaceful, a world which is joyous, and a world in which the future is much brighter than any of us can possibly imagine.