Dr. Jamil Zaki: How to Cultivate a Positive, Growth-Oriented Mindset

2050.485 - 2075.042 Dr. Jamil Zaki

85% of people think that cynics are socially wiser, that they'd be able, for instance, to detect who's lying and who's telling the truth. So most of us put a lot of faith in people who don't have a lot of faith in people. Ironically, and even more ironically, we're wrong to do so. Olga Stavrova, this great psychologist who studies cynicism, has this paper called The Cynical Genius Illusion.