Hook

Their other posts in the index, biggest breakout first.
Do you ever wonder what would happen if you committed to assuming the best case scenario in every way for 100 days? At the start of this year, I committed to doing an experiment that I called the 100 days of radical optimism. And quite a lot of people decided to join me as well. I created this experiment on my Substack because I was intrigued by the idea that you could choose to radically rewire your mindset for a fixed time frame. Because the time frame makes it less intimidating. You're not asking yourself to completely change the way you operate and see the world forever. You're just running a small experiment in your own life to see the results. What's the worst thing that could happen by living 100 days as optimistically as possible? So many of us get caught in worst case scenarios and this is sort of our default mode. However, I deeply believe that optimism genuinely makes our life experience better and more enjoyable. And it's not always easy, but when I look at proof from my own life, I can see that so many times when I tried something delusional or did something that I definitely didn't think was gonna work out, it did work out. And I wanted to try 100 days of believing that everything would work out in the same way. You're basically creating space in your life for life to surprise you positively. The best thing about this is that when you deeply believe that things are going to work out for you, you become more and more comfortable with going for bigger and more delusional and scarier things. You have absolutely nothing to lose by trying this out in your own life. For 100 days, just decide to assume the best. Catch yourself every time you're fearfully assuming and predicting the worst and try to immerse yourself actively in the best case scenario instead. Ask yourself how big and incredible and good can it really be and then choose to immerse yourself in that scenario and to visualize that scenario instead. Because literally why not? And I really don't believe that lowering our expectations for the sake of not getting disappointed is a good way to live life. Because hoping and believing is what makes life worth living. Having zero expectations and zero hope just doesn't sit right with me as a rewarding human life experience. This experiment is basically a way to make yourself more comfortable with dreaming big without fearing that it's unlikely or too much or out of your reality. No dream or desire is too big or too audacious or too unrealistic for you if that's what you really want.