A Bit of Optimism
My career is an accident. It started when I set out to rediscover my passion and reignite a spark I’d lost — and that journey led me to the work I do now. If you know me from my books or my speaking, you know I’m fascinated by why people do what they do. What makes someone find…
Amy Morin on Mental Strength, Avoidance, and What to Do on Your Worst Days
Psychotherapist Amy Morin and Simon Sinek treat mental strength as a daily practice and share small, practical moves for bad days.
Rob Lowe on the "Screw-Its," Bombing at the Oscars, and Why Authenticity Is Hollywood's Real Currency
Rob Lowe and Simon Sinek on risk-taking, surviving public humiliation, refusing to self-edit, and finding humor in life's hardest parts.
Arthur Brooks on Trusting Your Gut, Career Reinvention, and Finding Happiness in Process (A Bit of Optimism, Revisited)
Arthur Brooks and Simon Sinek on the 80/20/0 gut check, careers as spirals, the arrival fallacy, and why AI may erode the struggle that builds wisdom.
Esther Perel and Simon Sinek on Why the Quality of Our Relationships Shapes Our Lives, at Home and at Work
Esther Perel on how love and work turned happiness from a perk into the glue, why play matters, and why Gen Z should talk to strangers.