Editor’s note: Shift Your Mindset is an occasional series from CNN’s Mindfulness, But Better team. Based on a growing science, Zaki calls on people to replace cynicism with “hopeful skepticism” that helps to see the world more clearly and activates them to create a better future by leveraging “the surprising wisdom of hope.” Cynicism leads to apathy and inaction. "To …
If you feel certain your preferred candidate will lose the presidential election, that AI is coming for your job or that climate change is going to destroy humanity, then you have fallen prey to a cynical mindset, and you’re far from alone. Over the past 50 years, cynicism has spread like a virus across American society, infecting us with the …
