What I’m loving…
This is the spring issue, which means it’s time to reboot our optimism settings. It’s been a long, cold winter, not helped by stupidly frequent power cuts, huge fuel increases and scary food inflation, so it feels quite reasonable to be pessimistic. The problem is, pessimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy: the grimmer your outlook, the grimmer your experience of the world will be. Pessimism makes me make bad projections. My thought spiral tends to go like this: if things are this bad now and there is no proper intervention at a government level, then they can only get worse. But this view doesn’t take into account us ordinary people and our incredible ingenuity, or our ability to make a plan and do things differently. People adapt. We innovate and we can…
