Dear Optimism

Jeff Noel TEDx Talk American University of Kuwait team
Spring 2019. The American University of Kuwait TEDx Event team. My TEDx Talk: “Why Going the Extra Mile is a Flawed Concept, and What to Do Instead”.

Dear optimism, thank you for being everywhere i look.

It’s as easy to be an optimist as it is to be a pessimist. Both are simply repetitive, habitual thinking. One works for you, one destroys you.

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College Day 4 mentally

Dawn from a hotel room
Dawn from our hotel room.
11-second video: Change changes things. Thoughts, opinions, facts, options, goals, stories, even lives.

The longer i live the more open i am to change. Simultaneously, the more disciplined and focused i am to not change the basics.

dad

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College Day 3 mentally

Empty storage unit
We added a bunch of stuff yesterday.

We don’t stop dreaming big because we get old, we get old because we stop dreaming big.

dad

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College Day 2 mentally

UPS Store sign
Unstoppable? To be the status quo or to improve the status quo?

Only the mediocre are at their best every day.

dad

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College Day 1 mentally

Walt Disney picking up trash
Everyone’s second job at Disney is to pick up trash.

Try being unhappy while you are grateful. i cannot.

dad

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