Why Climate Change Or Guns Don’t Faze Me

How adopting Tolkien’s philosophy on conflict has aided my view of life…

Sukhroop Singh
Nov 5 · 3 min read
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Hans Rosling, the author of the book Factfulness, championed the idea of the negativity instinct. That is, the absolute human tendency to notice the bad more than the good. He notes this as a devastating distortion to human perspective, and if we were all being honest a…

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