Midweek Reset: Rebranding Hope

Hosted, produced and written by Jonathan Bastian and Andrea Brody
This week Jamil Zaki, professor of Psychology at Stanford University and author of “Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness,” talks about our need to rebrand hope as a culture.

This week Jamil Zaki, professor of Psychology at Stanford University and author of “Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness,” talks about our need to rebrand hope as a culture. ‘Hope,’  Zaki says, is the idea that things could turn out better than we might otherwise be led to believe and suggests ways and strategies we can take to combate our own cynical perspectives. 


Jamil Zaki.  Photo credit Vern Evans

This episode with Jamil Zaki was originally broadcast Sept 15th, 2024

Credits

Guest:

  • Jamil Zaki - Author; Associate Professor of Psychology, Stanford University; director, Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab

Host:

Jonathan Bastian

Producer:

Andrea Brody