If our lens is a negative one, we tend to view everything with pessimism, unhappiness, despondency. And there are others in the same situation with a positive lens of a healthy attitude, are endowed with optimism, happiness, and hope. The philosopher John Milton, he expressed this
it's amazing the expressions you get. And it was really despondent.
It was, like, a perfect plan. Cut to feeling really sad and really despondent. And I was feeling-- actually, I was feeling really bad for these guys because they had a plan.
And I think that's ultimately in the early stages of my leadership where I was young, the youngest person in the kitchen, And she looked a little like despondent or concerned.
to the mid-term elections in November, and if you think of all the people who are going off to vote in Europe this week, there's a sort of despondent apathy there. And what we argue in this book, is that is completely wrong.
Similar thoughts had no doubt wondered to the mind of the rest of us, but we were wary of articulating them. Lucy was quick to detect the new surge despondency.
higher prices is higher prices but when the trend is reversed then lower prices lead to still lower prices to buy when others are despondently selling and to sell when others are avidly buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays
I didn't know at the time that I was reporting on the end of the world. And I can tell you with absolute certainty that there was a time when this left me despondent, hopeless, deeply insecure about the future, which, given the state of the world today, meant I was just really a little bit ahead of the schedule of everyone else.
What did you give up to kind of reach your-- I presume-- are you happy, Mark? OK. So I think you mentioned something about one of the reasons for despondence is lack of control of life or having control of life.
I have to fight crying each time. My feeling was, if we allowed ourselves to become despondent because of her illness, then the message she would get is, she had ruined our lives.
And I think sometimes entrepreneurs have this kind of wild optimism. And then they inevitably become a bit disappointed when things don't all go exactly as they planned and become quite despondent. But I think you have to have this, for want of a better term, kind of balanced or cautious optimism.
I feel like sometimes, you're on the deck of the Titanic, and you can see the iceberg. You see kids and the Syrian refugees living in camps, who are becoming increasingly despondent because they don't have opportunity. You see southern Sudanese families who are selling their children into arms groups because they've run out of resources
Basically, after 12 years of doing this, he had gotten a bit tired. Haidara, meanwhile, was growing despondent the library he had dreamed of creating for five years was going nowhere.
It was just a half revolution. And what we argue, is that if you think that you should be despondent, and you can see lots of people who are going to troop off to the mid-term elections in November, and if you think of all the people who are going off to vote in Europe this week,
They're $32. I'm sure you can find them here. And I was walking down St. James's Street, despondent and then having run out of money.
And he ends up kind of singing Guns N' Roses, "Patience" to himself as he walked the streets at night, just trying to make it right. And ends up sleeping underneath a bridge. The Courtland Street Bridge. And wakes up the next morning just really despondent. Any good story, you have to have a complete low moment. This is his complete low moment. He has, nd Axlerod's puppy ends up with him, named Hambone.
And so there's a little bit-- materially life is better than it's ever been in the history of the human race. Yet there's just huge amounts of pessimism, mental health issues, despair, despondency that's going on in our culture. And the book is mainly about investigating why that is.
The second thing is that if it's difficult to figure out what is worth pursuing, if it's not clear what is valuable, or if all of what you think is valuable is called into question, then you also fall into that despondence. You don't know why it's worth getting up, why it's worth doing anything.
I thought, 'they better be talking about what a good wife I am.'" Karen Leibowitz: "When we got home, I was exhausted to the point of despondency, but