We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks.

Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia. It's the understanding that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It's a mode of training your senses and intellect so you're able to perceive the fact that life always gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.

Enjoy saying "no!" but don't make it the wellspring of your vitality. Be fueled by blood-red yeses.

You need to evade every influence that tends to keep you frozen in the past.

Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination.

We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks.

We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and tumult. They get far more that their fair share of attention everywhere else. Future historians might even conclude that our age suffered from a collective obsessive-compulsive disorder: the pathological need to repetitively seek out reasons for how bad life is.